“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Music
“Man lives by imagination.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Havelock Ellis
“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“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“'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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Beauty“Man lives by imagination.”
Imagination“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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Death“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
Jealousy“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“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 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 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“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“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“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