Havelock Ellis

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves 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.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.