Havelock Ellis Quotes

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

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

Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.