Havelock Ellis Quotes

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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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For even the most sober 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.

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The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

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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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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

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The methods of statistics are so variable and uncertain, so apt to be influenced by circumstances, that it is never possible to be sure that one is operating with figures of equal weight.

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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.

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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

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I am regarded as an authority on sex, a fact which sometimes amused one or two (though not all) of my intimate women friends.

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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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.

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'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.

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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.

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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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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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The sexual embrace, worthily understood, can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

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

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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.

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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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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

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Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

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