136 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

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.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.