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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
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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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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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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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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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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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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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.
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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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Beauty is the child of love.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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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 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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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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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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