Havelock Ellis Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Havelock Ellis quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased psychologist born on Feb 2, 1859). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 59 we have for him.
“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.”
“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.”
“In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.”
“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.”
“Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.”
“The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.”
“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
“The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.”
“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
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