What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis More Quotes by Havelock Ellis More Quotes From Havelock Ellis The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. Havelock Ellis husband home average The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. Havelock Ellis parent should children A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. Havelock Ellis cherish sublime faith The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis progress dies civilization I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. Havelock Ellis fighting angel darkness The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. Havelock Ellis smell silence birthday Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Havelock Ellis experience poor imagination It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. Havelock Ellis atheism elephants men Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Havelock Ellis strength inspirational men The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. Havelock Ellis dancing dance reflection We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. Havelock Ellis criminals civilization country There is nothing more fragile than civilization. Havelock Ellis fragile civilization Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. Havelock Ellis finest pleasure may The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Havelock Ellis ladders math science On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken. Havelock Ellis eye law men A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havelock Ellis belief inspirational men Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction. Havelock Ellis function fundamentals sex The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship. Havelock Ellis essentials animal sex All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. Havelock Ellis spiritual winning lying The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. Havelock Ellis becoming feelings world
