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. Havelock Ellis More Quotes by Havelock Ellis More Quotes From Havelock Ellis Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people. Havelock Ellis dancing people art 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 foundation sympathy men 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. Havelock Ellis dignity atheism men The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis music prayer sex The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health. Havelock Ellis eye expression character Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. Havelock Ellis adequate poison skills 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. Havelock Ellis ignorant rejection sides So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. Havelock Ellis successful war country The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. Havelock Ellis ancient husband matter 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 charm men mean 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 taken beautiful life 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. Havelock Ellis dancing lying art We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. Havelock Ellis change self past To make a mountain out of a mole-hill. Havelock Ellis moles hills mountain Man lives by imagination. Havelock Ellis live-by imagination men It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. Havelock Ellis becoming wish firsts All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead. Havelock Ellis beautiful lying past 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 exercise romantic sex Every ist writes his own autobiography. Havelock Ellis autobiography writing art The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. Havelock Ellis mystic style soul
