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Havelock Ellis
1859 – 1939 • British • Psychologist
59
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Collected Meditations
Showing 59 quotesOne can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.— Havelock Ellis
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.— Havelock Ellis
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.— Havelock Ellis
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.— Havelock Ellis
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.— Havelock Ellis
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.— Havelock Ellis
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.— Havelock Ellis
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.— Havelock Ellis
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.— Havelock Ellis
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.— Havelock Ellis
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.— Havelock Ellis
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.— Havelock Ellis