Havelock Ellis Quotes
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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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.
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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.
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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
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A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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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.
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
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Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves 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. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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Every ist writes his own autobiography.
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Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.
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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.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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