Author: Havelock Ellis

Quotes

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

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