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Ellen Key quotes: Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

Ellen Key quotes: Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Ellen Key quotes: The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

Ellen Key quotes: To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

Ellen Key quotes: The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Ellen Key quotes: Is human love the growth of the human will ?

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

Ellen Key quotes: War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Ellen Key quotes: When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key quotes: One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

Ellen Key quotes: Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Ellen Key quotes: Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

Ellen Key quotes: Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...

Ellen Key quotes: Why is the heart that is broken considered so much more valuable than the one or the two who must cause the pain lest they themselves perish?"

Why is the heart that is broken considered so much more valuable than the one or the two who must cause the pain lest they themselves perish?"

Ellen Key quotes: Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

Ellen Key quotes: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key quotes: All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Ellen Key quotes: The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Ellen Key quotes: Art, that great undogmatized church.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Ellen Key quotes: The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key quotes: Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

Ellen Key quotes: The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Ellen Key quotes: The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Ellen Key quotes: Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...

Ellen Key quotes: The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Ellen Key quotes: At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key quotes: Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.