Havelock Ellis
13 quotations
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.