“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Change
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
JealousyAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
Success“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death“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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty“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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money“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.”
Education“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
Faith“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“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“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
Religion“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“Man lives by imagination.”
Imagination“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“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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
War