Famous Havelock Ellis Quotations

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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
by Havelock Ellis
"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
by Havelock Ellis
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself."
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life"
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"Imagination is a poor substitute for experience."
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
by Havelock Ellis
"Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
by Havelock Ellis
"Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."
by Havelock Ellis
"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go."
by Havelock Ellis
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
by Havelock Ellis
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
by Havelock Ellis
"The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum."
by Havelock Ellis
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
by Havelock Ellis
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
by Havelock Ellis
"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
by Havelock Ellis
"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command."
by Henry Havelock Ellis
"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command."
by Havelock Ellis
"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
by Havelock Ellis
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
by Havelock Ellis
"It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution."
by Havelock Ellis
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
by Havelock Ellis
"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
by Havelock Ellis
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
by Havelock Ellis
"The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together."
by Havelock Ellis
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
by Havelock Ellis


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