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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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.

"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.

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.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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

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.

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

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.