Havelock Ellis Quotes

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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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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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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.

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The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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

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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

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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 the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

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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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Aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

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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 on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.

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For the artist life is always a discipline, and no discipline can be without pain.

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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

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"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.

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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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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.

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'Auto erotism,'..spontaneous solitary sexual phenomena of which genital excitement during sleep may be said to be the type.

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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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It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

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