01UndatedDancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
03UndatedWe cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
04UndatedThe sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
06UndatedLife is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
08UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedJealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
10UndatedIn philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
11UndatedPhilosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
12UndatedHowever well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
13UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedPain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
15UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedEducation, 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 / quote ↗
22UndatedMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
23UndatedIn 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 / quote ↗
24UndatedThe romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.Havelock Ellis / quote ↗
