KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Havelock Ellis Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Showing 51-59 of 59 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Havelock Ellis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 2nd, 1859

Died: July 8th, 1939

Links

Find Havelock Ellis on Amazon

Related Authors

Wayne Dyer
Albert Ellis
Viktor E. Frankl
Sigmund Freud
Erich Fromm
Carl Jung
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Abraham Maslow

Popular Authors

Nuno Bettencourt Douglas Macarthur Jenn Proske Ayn Rand Lucius Annaeus Seneca Thomas Sowell Mark Twain Walt Whitman

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Dad Famous Independence Moving On Patriotism Strength Truth