Havelock Ellis

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#effecting #functions #life #many #our

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#different #every #every man #fellows #genius

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#emotions #exactly #failing #find #kind

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen

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

— Havelock Ellis

#goal #matters #met #philosophy #things

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#acted #always #art #been #conceive

Man lives by imagination. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#lives #man #man lives

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

— Havelock Ellis

#fools #know #longer #men #stand

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#embrace #intimate #quite #sexual