Havelock Ellis Quotes
"Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Life, Effect)
"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."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Beginning, Day, Present, Rejection, Theory)
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Genius, Man, Tragedy, World)
"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Religion, Connection)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Emotions)
"When love is suppressed hate takes its place."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Love, Hate)
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: War, Nothing)
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Moon, Stars, Sun)
"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."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Age, Hearing, Mercy, Now, Sense)
"The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations."
- Havelock Ellis
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Optimism)
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Importance, Parents)
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Civilization)
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Love, Husband, Instinct, Motive, Pleasure, Tradition)
"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Christianity, Affection, Chastity, Exercise, Intimacy, Romantic, Sexes)
"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Education, Preparation)
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Progress)
"The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product."
- Havelock Ellis
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Goal, Philosophy)
"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Knowledge, First, Morals, Old)
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Success)
"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Act)
"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Morality, Being, Needs, Nothing, Woman)
"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Fact, Neglect, Socialism, Will)
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Population)
"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Home, Work, HusbEffect)