Famous Quotes / Havelock Ellis
35 Quotations by Havelock Ellis
- 21. The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
- 22. The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
- 23. The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
- 24. The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the pop ...
- 25. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness
- 26. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the r ...
- 27. There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of a ...
- 28. There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure t ...
- 29. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- 30. Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of ...
- 31. To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
- 32. We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect ...
- 33. We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
- 34. What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- 35. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.