H. Havelock Ellis > Quotes

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
― Havelock Ellis

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
― Havelock Ellis

“‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
― Henry Havelock Ellis

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ”
― Havelock Ellis

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”
― Havelock Ellis

“The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ”
― Havelock Ellis

“Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”
― Havelock Ellis

“Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
― Havelock Ellis

“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”
― Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments

“When love is suppressed hate takes its place.”
― Havelock Ellis

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
― Havelock Ellis

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
― Havelock Ellis

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”
― Havelock Ellis

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
― Havelock Ellis

“And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God.”
― H. Havelock Ellis

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
― Havelock Ellis

“The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
― Havelock Ellis

“Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.”
― Havelock Ellis

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
― Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life

“the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
― Havelock Ellis, The Task Of Social Hygiene

“A woman may not want a lover, but may yet want a child.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
― Henry Havelock Ellis

“When we read certain portions of “Leaves of Grass” we seem to see a vast phalanx of Great Companions passing for ever along the cosmic roads, stalwart Pioneers of the Universe. There are superb young men, athletic girls, splendid and savage old men—for the weak seem to have perished by the roadside.”
― H. Havelock Ellis

“the female is most easily won by the male who most strongly excites her sexual instincts.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“Steinach found that, when sexually mature white rats were castrated, though at first they remained as potent as ever, their potency gradually declined; sexual excitement, however, and sexual inclination always persisted.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“Luther, again, always compared the sexual to the excretory impulse, and said that marriage was just as necessary as the emission of urine.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”
― Havelock Ellis

“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wildernes”
― Havelock Ellis

“Krafft-Ebing was disposed to regard all cases in which a scatalogical sexual attraction existed as due to "latent masochism.”
― Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Vol. 1-6): The Evolution of Modesty, the Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity and Auto-Erotism

“Coprolagnia,”
― H. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol 5: Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy