Havelock Ellis Quotes

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
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
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
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
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Havelock Ellis
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Havelock Ellis
The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Havelock Ellis
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis
Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis