Havelock Ellis - Human Quotes

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

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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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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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

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The sun and 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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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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