The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Quote by Havelock Ellis

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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...

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

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

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

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...

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...

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

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.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

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 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...

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.

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

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

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find...

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find...

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...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

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.

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 difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone...

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone...

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment