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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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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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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 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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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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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 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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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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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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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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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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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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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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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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 great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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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