Havelock Ellis Quotes

‘All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.’ – Havelock Ellis

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

‘Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?’ – Havelock Ellis

‘What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘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