'Charm'- which means the power to effect work without employing brute force- is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
--Havelock Ellis
'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.
--Havelock Ellis
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
--Havelock Ellis
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
--Havelock Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
--Havelock Ellis
Dreams are necessary to life.
--Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
--Havelock Ellis
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
--Havelock Ellis
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.
--Havelock Ellis
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
--Havelock Ellis
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
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
--Havelock Ellis
Man lives by imagination.
--Havelock Ellis
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
--Havelock Ellis
The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.
--Havelock Ellis
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
--Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
--Havelock Ellis
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
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
--Havelock Ellis
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.
--Havelock Ellis
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
--Havelock Ellis
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
--Havelock Ellis
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
--Havelock Ellis
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
--Havelock Ellis
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