Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis, was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth2 February 1859
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos
What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves 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. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
Beauty is the child of love.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.