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Havelock Ellis Inspirational Quotes (61)

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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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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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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.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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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.
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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.
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The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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Beauty is the child of love.
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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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.
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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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.
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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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.
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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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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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