Havelock Ellis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

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

“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.”