Top 59 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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

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.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.