Havelock Ellis Quotes

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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  Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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• To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

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  Life, Art, Teach

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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  Peace, War, Achieve

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• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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  Love, Jealousy, Hate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.73, Elsevier

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• Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Men

  "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 3, 1912.

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• Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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  Sex, Lying, Roots

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism”, p.11, tredition

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• Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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  Inspiring, Dream, Real

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

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  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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  Courage, Danger In Life, Bravery

  "On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue".

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• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

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  Struggle, Essence, Together

  Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”

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• What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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  Atheism, Politics, Moral

  1923 The Dance of Life.

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• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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  Depression, Optimism, Psychology

  Dance of Life (1923) ch. 3

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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  Money, Thinking, Poetry

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

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  Men, Alcohol, Superstitions

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• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

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  Lying, Work, Land

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

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  Religion, Atheism, Connections

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• Liberty is always unfinished business

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  Unfinished Business, Liberty, Unfinished

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• No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

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  Intimate, Embrace

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier

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• Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

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  Art, People, Dancing

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• Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

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  Real, Responsibility, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Little Essays of Love and Virtue”, p.46, tredition

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• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Design

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• 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.

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  Men, Atheism, Dignity

  HAVELOCK ELLIS (1930). “IMPRESSIONS & COMMENTS”

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• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

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  Art, Philosophy, History

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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