“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.”
ArtAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
Religion“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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Change“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“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“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Money“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“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“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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Art“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 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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Dreams“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“'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