One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. Havelock Ellis More Quotes by Havelock Ellis More Quotes From Havelock Ellis Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. Havelock Ellis suicide war peace Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. Havelock Ellis function birth-control social For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. Havelock Ellis educational preparation littles 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. Havelock Ellis beautiful inspirational life 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. Havelock Ellis personality philosophy two ...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified. Havelock Ellis passion views beautiful There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiatedas to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love. Havelock Ellis flower love men The mother is the child's supreme parent. Havelock Ellis parent mother children Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. Havelock Ellis decrease population tasks Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves 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. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first. Havelock Ellis men lying art Beauty is the child of love. Havelock Ellis love-is beauty children The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man. Havelock Ellis animal men needs Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus. Havelock Ellis marriage play sex Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. Havelock Ellis eugenics rocks beautiful Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes. Havelock Ellis benefits hero people It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. Havelock Ellis statistics artist imagination The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities. Havelock Ellis independent opportunity thinking The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. Havelock Ellis valuable products sometimes Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing. Havelock Ellis names science children There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. Havelock Ellis wise time country
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