Havelock Ellis

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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

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.

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

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.