136 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.