“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Change“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“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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“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“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 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.”
Family“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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
Success“'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.”
Power“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“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
Faith“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music“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“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
Religion“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death