Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

#Absence, #Flaws

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

#Art, #Dancing, #Life

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

#Imagination

Man lives by imagination.

#Jealousy

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

#Death And Dying, #Pain

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

#Philosophy