Havelock Ellis Quotations | Page 2

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.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Liberty is always unfinished business

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.