The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. -Havelock Ellis Architecture
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. -Havelock Ellis Family
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. -Havelock Ellis Relationship
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. -Havelock Ellis Happiness
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 Men
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 Romantic
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. -Havelock Ellis Poetry
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. -Havelock Ellis Wisdom
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. -Havelock Ellis War
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. -Havelock Ellis Sympathy
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. -Havelock Ellis Chance
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 Education
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. -Havelock Ellis Nature
