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
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.