All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis on life
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 on men
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis on money
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis on music
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 on nature
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 on nature
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis on poetry
'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. Havelock Ellis on power
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 on relationship
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. Havelock Ellis on religion
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis on romantic
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 on romantic
'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. Havelock Ellis on strength
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Havelock Ellis on success
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 on sympathy
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis on war
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. Havelock Ellis on wisdom
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 on women
'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. Havelock Ellis on women
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. Havelock Ellis on women