Havelock Ellis

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

When love is suppressed hate takes its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#love #love is #place #suppressed #takes

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

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. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#educational #every #follows #fresh #little

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#equal #importance #least #only #parents

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#last #life #long #more #real

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

— Havelock Ellis

#itself #life #pain #part #reject

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

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened

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

— Havelock Ellis

#digest #man #more #must #swallow

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#better #different #failures #new #our