Havelock Ellis Quotes & Quotations

Havelock Ellis Quotes

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

» The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

» 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.

» However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

» We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

» Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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

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

» Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

» There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

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