Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Havelock Ellis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
Knowledge
Platitudes
Wish
Maintained
Firsts
Morals
First
Improve
Must
Becoming
Longer
Clear
Moral
More quotes by Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
Havelock Ellis
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Havelock Ellis
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis
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.
Havelock Ellis
Man lives by imagination.
Havelock Ellis
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis
