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
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?