Top 59 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

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

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

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.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.