Quote Author: Henry Havelock Ellis

Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘Even the most scientific inv…

‘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 … Continue reading

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘Dancing is the loftiest the …

‘Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘The byproduct is sometimes m…

‘The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘All civilization has from ti…

‘All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘To make a mountain of a mole…

‘To make a mountain of a mole-hill.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘One can know nothing of givi…

‘One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘To be a leader of men one mu…

‘To be a leader of men one must turn ones back on men.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘The whole religious complexi…

‘The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘Every artist writes his own …

‘Every artist writes his own autobiography.’

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Henry Havelock Ellis – ‘There is nothing that war ha…

‘There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.’

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