“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
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
NatureAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Art“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Change“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
Faith“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death“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.”
Education“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Wisdom“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
Success“Man lives by imagination.”
Imagination“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“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“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“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 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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
War“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“'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