136 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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.

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.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.