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Man lives by imagination.

Havelock Ellis

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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
Imagination
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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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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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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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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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 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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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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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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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
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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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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 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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