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

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

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...

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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...

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 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...

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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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

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

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 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...

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.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

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

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

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...