Quote by Havelock Ellis
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. – Havelock Ellis

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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

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

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Life
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings 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

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All men by nature desire knowledge. – Aristotle

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Im hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. Thats what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think thats from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. – Jay-Z

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This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Zeal will do more than knowledge. – William Hazlitt

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire

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