Havelock Ellis Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Science, Names

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

• One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

  Havelock Ellis

  Giving, Worthy, Know How

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.12, Elsevier

• Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

  Havelock Ellis

  Running, Art, Latin

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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