Havelock Ellis Quotes

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.

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

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

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

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.