Top 59 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

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

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.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.