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Havelock Ellis Inspirational Quotes (60)

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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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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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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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Man lives by imagination.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
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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.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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 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.
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