Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis

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Havelock Ellis is a British physician, eugenicist, writer, and social reformer whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Their thinking spans from Art to Women, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 41 of Havelock Ellis's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Art, Women, Romantic, Nature, and Knowledge. Readers often gravitate to this one: "The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Education

All Quotes by Havelock Ellis

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Art

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

— Havelock Ellis

Success

“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”

— Havelock Ellis

Dreams

“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”

— Havelock Ellis

Faith

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

— Havelock Ellis

Art

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

— Havelock Ellis

Jealousy

“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”

— Havelock Ellis

Wisdom

“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

Family

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Age

“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

Men

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Home

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”

— Havelock Ellis

War

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Happiness

“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.”

— Havelock Ellis

Education

“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”

— Havelock Ellis

Change

“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.”

— Havelock Ellis

Education

“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”

— Havelock Ellis

Death

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

— Havelock Ellis

Money

“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

— Havelock Ellis

Music

“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

Architecture