Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis

Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘Thinking in its lower grades…

‘Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money. and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Poetry |

‘The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be the slaves instead of the masters of men.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Machinery |

‘What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Morality |

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

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Beliefs |

‘The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Optimism |

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

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Philosophy |

‘The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago … had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Housework |

‘The omnipresent process of sex as it is woven into the whole texture of our mans or womans body is the pattern of all the process of our life.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Sex |

‘What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Progress |

‘The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.’

Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis | Quote Genre: Promise |