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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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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
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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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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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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.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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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 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 mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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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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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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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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Liberty is always unfinished business
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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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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