Havelock Ellis Zitate auf Englisch

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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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

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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

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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.

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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Dancing 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.

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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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.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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

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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

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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.

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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

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Man lives by imagination.

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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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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.

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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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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.

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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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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.

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

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