Havelock Ellis

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.

'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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.

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.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

"Charm"—which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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

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

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.