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Havelock Ellis
26 quotes
“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Huysman's A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884)
“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 (1859–1939) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New Spirit (1890)
“'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Studies in Psychology (1897)
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 1 (1912)
“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.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source