List of Havelock Ellis Quotes

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Havelock Ellis
Total Quotes 109
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.
Mother Father Parent
Every ist writes his own autobiography.
Art Writing Autobiography
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. a well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.
Character Eye Expression
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in man for his nearest ancestors and relations. if only darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the elephant or the lion or the antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of evolution.
Men Elephants Atheism
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Artist Imagination Statistics
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Independent Opportunity Thinking
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.
Children Science Names
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Dance Reflection Dancing
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.
Angel Fighting Darkness
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Civilization Progress Dies
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.
Beautiful Lying Past
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds god, in his own soul.
Soul Style Mystic
  • Born: February 2, 1859
  • Died: July 8, 1939
  • Occupation: Physician
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