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Havelock Ellis
British
Psychologist
About the author
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Christianity
#Exercise
#Affection
#Romantic
#Intimacy
#Chastity
#Sexes
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.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Education
#Preparation
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Progress
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Goal
#Philosophy
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Old
#First
#Knowledge
#Morals
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Success
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Act
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Nothing
#Being
#Needs
#Woman
#Morality
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Will
#Fact
#Socialism
#Neglect
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Population
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Work
#Home
#HusbEffect
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Life
#Education
#Knowledge
#Meeting
#Skill
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Life
#Effect
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Day
#Present
#Beginning
#Theory
#Rejection
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#World
#Man
#Tragedy
#Genius
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Religion
#Connection
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Men
#Emotions
#Women
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Love
#Hate
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Nothing
#War
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Stars
#Sun
#Moon
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Now
#Sense
#Age
#Hearing
#Mercy
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Optimism
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Parents
#Importance
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Civilization
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis,
British
Psychologist
#Love
#Motive
#Instinct
#Pleasure
#Tradition
#Husband