There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis More Quotes by Havelock Ellis More Quotes From Havelock Ellis Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. Havelock Ellis politicsactionpeople 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 menlifeart One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. Havelock Ellis know-howworthygiving No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. Havelock Ellis embraceintimate 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 emotionkindmen Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. Havelock Ellis spheresartistimagination No faith is our own that we have not arduously won. Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Havelock Ellis suicidalsuicidemean Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. Havelock Ellis geniustragedymen The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. Havelock Ellis texturesexymen The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. Havelock Ellis intimateindividualrelation Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis moneypoetrythinking What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis progress-and-changeprogresschange It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. Havelock Ellis failurebusinesspositive The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. Havelock Ellis essencestruggletogether The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. Havelock Ellis technologymencivilization All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis volcanoestimecivilization There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether. Havelock Ellis alcoholpoisoncivilization However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis danger-in-lifebraverycourage The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis designbeautifulbeauty
