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
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
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.
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.