“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”
Havelock Ellis“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Havelock Ellis“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”
Havelock Ellis“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
Havelock Ellis“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Havelock Ellis“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Havelock Ellis“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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Havelock Ellis“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Havelock Ellis“Man lives by imagination.”
Havelock Ellis“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
Havelock Ellis