Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
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 British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
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 British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
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. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
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. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
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 British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis British More Havelock Ellis Quotes 0