Havelock Ellis

Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total 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. Havelock EllisThe place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock EllisWhat we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914) The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life

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