Havelock Ellis Short Quotes

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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To learn to dance is the most austere of disciplines.

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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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

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

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

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

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A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

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

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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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If mathematics were the only path of science.... Nature would have been illegible for Goethe..

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

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

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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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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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