136 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.