The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Quote by Havelock Ellis

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The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

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.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that...

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that...

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Man lives by imagination.

Man lives by imagination.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a...

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a...

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

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

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life...

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life...

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...

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...

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...

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...