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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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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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 parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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Man lives by imagination.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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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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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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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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