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All Quotes by author - Havelock Ellis

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

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

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

" At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. "

" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "

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

" 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. "

" Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. "

" Man lives by imagination. "

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

" No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. "

" Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. "

" The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. "

" 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. "

" The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. "

" The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. "

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

" There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. "

" There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. "

" The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. "

" The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. "

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

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

" What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. "

" When love is suppressed hate takes its place. "

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