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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
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Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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Man lives by imagination.
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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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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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Beauty is the child of love.
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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 mother is the child's supreme parent.
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing.
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The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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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 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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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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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 place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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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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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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