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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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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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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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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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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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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.
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The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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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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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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