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.

Quote by Havelock Ellis

Topics: Imagination Quotes

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the...

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the...

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

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

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to...

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to...

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Man lives by imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it...

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most...

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms...

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms...

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of...

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of...

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened...

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened...

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is...

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is...

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in...

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in...

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is...

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is...

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment....

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment....

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.