The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. – Havelock Ellis
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. – Havelock Ellis
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? – Havelock Ellis
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. – Havelock Ellis
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography. – Havelock Ellis
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. – Havelock Ellis
We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. – Havelock Ellis
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. – Havelock Ellis
What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. – Havelock Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis
