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Havelock Ellis quotes: The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Havelock Ellis quotes: To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis quotes: No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis quotes: 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. 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.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Every society has the criminals that it deserves. Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Havelock Ellis quotes: To make a mountain out of a mole-hill. To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Beauty is the child of love. Beauty is the child of love.
Havelock Ellis quotes: However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis quotes: 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. 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.
Havelock Ellis quotes: All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Havelock Ellis quotes: A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
Havelock Ellis quotes: All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis quotes: One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis quotes: There is nothing more fragile than civilization. There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Every artist writes his own autobiography. Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis quotes: It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible. Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes. Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The mother is the child's supreme parent. The mother is the child's supreme parent.
Havelock Ellis quotes: No faith is our own that we have not arduously won. No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Havelock Ellis quotes: To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Where there is most labour there is not always most life. Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
Havelock Ellis quotes: What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis quotes: 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. 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.
Havelock Ellis quotes: In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis quotes: There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis quotes: There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Havelock Ellis quotes: There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Havelock Ellis quotes: What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis quotes: 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. 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.
Havelock Ellis quotes: A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
Havelock Ellis quotes: The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis quotes: 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. 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.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Man lives by imagination. Man lives by imagination.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis quotes: We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Havelock Ellis quotes: Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis quotes: A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis quotes: We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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