Havelock Ellis

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

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.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

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.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.