Famous Quotes / Havelock Ellis
35 Quotations by Havelock Ellis
- 1. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
- 2. All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- 3. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere tran ...
- 4. Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
- 5. Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- 6. However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
- 7. I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark ...
- 8. It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more diffic ...
- 9. It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and rela ...
- 10. It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could neve ...
- 11. Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
- 12. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- 13. Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
- 14. Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
- 15. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- 16. No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
- 17. No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
- 18. Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
- 19. Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single com ...
- 20. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.