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Havelock Ellis Quotes


A British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality.
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. As contemporary progressive thinker, he supported eugenics and served as president of the Galton Institute.

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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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

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Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

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

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We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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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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The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

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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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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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Philosophy 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.