Havelock Ellis Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”

“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.”

“Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.”

“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”

“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”

“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”

“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”

“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.”

“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”