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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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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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Man lives by imagination.
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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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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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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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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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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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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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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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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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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 mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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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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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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