Havelock Ellis Quotes & Quotations

Havelock Ellis Quotes

» It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

» Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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

» To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

» Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

» 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.

» 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.

» The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

» The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

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

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