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Havelock Ellis

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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age

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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architecture

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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art

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

-Havelock Ellis

art

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

art

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

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art

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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beauty

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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change

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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death

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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dreams

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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education

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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education

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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faith

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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family

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

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happiness

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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home

Man lives by imagination.

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imagination

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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jealousy

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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knowledge

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.

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knowledge

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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life

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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men

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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money

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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music

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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nature

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.

-Havelock Ellis

nature

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

-Havelock Ellis

poetry

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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power

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

relationship

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

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religion

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

-Havelock Ellis

romantic

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

-Havelock Ellis

romantic

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.

-Havelock Ellis

strength

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

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success

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.

-Havelock Ellis

sympathy

Havelock Ellis

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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.

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.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

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.

Man lives by imagination.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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.

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.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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.

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.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

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.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

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.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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