“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
Religion
“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
Jealousy“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 romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music“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 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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“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“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“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“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 sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
Nature“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Art“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“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
Success“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money