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Havelock Ellis Quotes
Havelock Ellis Quotes
Havelock Ellis
British
Psychologist
Born:
Feb 2
,
1859
Died:
Jul 8
,
1939
Civilization
Human
Life
Man
Men
More
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Holding
Living
Lies
Fine
Go
Holding On
Letting
Letting Go
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis
Time
Become
Revolution
Civilization
Volcano
Over
Crust
From Time To Time
Thin
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
Nature
Moon
Long
Stars
Sun
Would
Had
Disappeared
Reach
Within
Hands
Human
Predatory
Happened
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Love
Jealousy
Alive
Pretence
Which
Keeping
Dragon
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis
Asylum
Most
Optimism
Where
Place
Lunatic
Flourishes
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.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Beautiful
Most Beautiful
Translation
Dancing
Mere
Abstraction
Most
Because
Itself
Arts
Moving
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Other
Side
Wilderness
Promised
Promised Land
Lies
Always
Land
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Beautiful
Family
Relationship
Life Is Beautiful
Important
Our
Consideration
One Aspect
Only
Taken
Ideal
Well
However
Reverse
Human
Represents
Being
Social
Aspect
Functions
Activities
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Art
Man
Difficult
Has-Been
More
More Or Less
He
Conceive
Always
How
Been
His
Than
Realize
Act
Acted
Less
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
Change
Progress
Exchange
Call
Another
Nuisance
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis
Knowledge
Old
First
Wish
Our
Must
Morals
Clear
Maintained
Longer
Becoming
Improve
Platitudes
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Death
Pain
Part
Itself
Them
Reject
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis
Music
Prayer
Embrace
Only
Romantic
Compared
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis
Parents
Only
Importance
Equal
Least
Train
Children
Themselves
Should
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis
Sometimes
Nervous
Doubt
Suicide
System
Winding
Prevalence
Civilization
Point
Tension
Without
Test
Snaps
Intellectual
Up
Height
Means
Population
Utmost
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis
War
Better
Achieve
Nothing
Could
Without
Achieved
Ever
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis
Money
Thinking
Paper
Kind
Poetry
Higher
Grades
Forms
Lower
Comparable
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis
Sometimes
Valuable
More
Than
Product
By-Product
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis
Faith
Astray
Those
Seldom
Cherish
Led
Sublime
Human
Who
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Man
Woman
Sex
Omnipresent
Our
Woven
Texture
Process
Pattern
Body
Whole
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Lie
Architecture
First
Building
Beginning
Dancing
Outside
Source
End
Person
Human
Arts
In The End
Themselves
Stands
Express
Unite
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis
Rapidly
Rise
More
Civilization
Sooner
Another
Dies
Place
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Havelock Ellis
Life
Education
Knowledge
Whatever
Else
Meeting
Adequate
Must
Poisons
Equipment
Against
Skill
Should
Chances
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis
Day
Seen
Beginning
Rejection
Unjustified
Other
Side
Alike
Sexual
Both
Crude
Altogether
Impulse
Held
Ignorant
Theory
Present
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis
Needs
Woman
Human Being
Nothing
Responsibilities
Sexual
Morality
Known
Real
Real Human
Often
Human
Being
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis
Increasingly
Speeding
Like
Becomes
Still
Up
Task
Human
Whether
Urgent
Decrease
Human Population
Population
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