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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
Men
Imagination
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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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 sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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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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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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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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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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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 mother is the child's supreme parent.
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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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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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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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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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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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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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