Quote

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
Holding
Lies
Fine
Morning
Lying
Mingling
Living
Physicians
Art
Goodbye
Life
Letting

More quotes by Havelock Ellis

Image
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
Image
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Man lives by imagination.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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
Image
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.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
Image
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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
Image
There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
Havelock Ellis
Image
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Beauty is the child of love.
Havelock Ellis
Image
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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.
Havelock Ellis
Image
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis
Image
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
Image
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.
Havelock Ellis