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.

Quote by Havelock Ellis

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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we...

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we...

When love is suppressed hate takes its place

When love is suppressed hate takes its place

Liberty is always unfinished business

Liberty is always unfinished business

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

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

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

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

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...

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.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

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...

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.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...

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...

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the...