“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?”
DreamsAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Wisdom“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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty“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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death“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“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“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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Art“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“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“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music“Man lives by imagination.”
Imagination“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
Faith“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“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
Jealousy“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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money