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.

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

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

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 greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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

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

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

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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.

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.