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"40 Havelock Ellis Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 February 1859. Died: 8 July 1939 | Physician | Eugenicist | Writer |

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Charm Power Effect work Employing
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Nothing War Achieved Better
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art Living Fine mingling Letting go
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Call morals Simply blind Word Command
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Great men Truly obscene Dared
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies Life Never Learn
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Man lives by imagination.
Man Lives Imagination
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Greatest task Civilization Machines Slaves
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy Dragon Slays love Alive
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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.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution

All civilization Time Volcano Revolution
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Leader Men Turn Back
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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.

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

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

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

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Romantic Embrace Music Prayer
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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

Well organized Foundations Life Risk
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Vague Feeling Musicians Fallen angel
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The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

By product More valuable
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Sublime faith Human imbecility Cherish
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Nothing Worthy Knows
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

The mathematician Reached Highest rung Human thought
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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.

Never Country Every moment Virtuous
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

In philosophy Attainment Goal Matters
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Art Dancing Stands Express themselves
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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.

Men Women Understand Nature
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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 family Important Human beings
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

More rapidly Civilization progress Its place
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Parent Train Children Equal importance
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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.

Fresh stage Education Little Preparation
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Becoming clear Old platitudes Maintained Moral
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Birth control Effect Social life
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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.

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

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

Every man Sees World Fellows
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Love Suppressed Hate
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