“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.”
Home
“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.”
EducationAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“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.”
Architecture“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music“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.”
Education“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“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.”
Art“Man lives by imagination.”
Imagination“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
Religion“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Change“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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“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.”
Happiness“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
Nature“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.”
Romantic“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.”
Age“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
War“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.”
Knowledge“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.”
Women“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death