Havelock Ellis Quotes

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.
Havelock Ellis

Knowledge, Wish, Old

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis

Human, Whether, Task

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis

Beauty, Absence, Flaw

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.
Havelock Ellis

Art, End, Human

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis

Sometimes, Valuable, Product

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis

Lies, Side, Land

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Havelock Ellis

Wise, Country, Moment

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis

Change, Another, Progress

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis

Time, Revolution, Become

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis

Rejection, Beginning, Both

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Social, Effect

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis

Different, Genius, Tragedy

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.
Havelock Ellis

Women, Men, Find

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.
Havelock Ellis

Happiness, Fight, Feeling

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.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Difficult

Man lives by imagination.
Havelock Ellis

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis

Men, Wisdom, Door

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Havelock Ellis

Act, Quite, Sexual

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis

Woman, Nothing, Human

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis

Nothing, Giving, Give

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Sex, Understand

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis

Beautiful, Rock, Hard

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.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Family, Beautiful

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Havelock Ellis

Men, Greatest, Before

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Husband, Himself

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 2, 1859

Died: July 8, 1939

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