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. - Havelock Ellis 2 Share Now -
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. - Havelock Ellis 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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. - Havelock Ellis 5 Share Now -
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. - Havelock Ellis 6 Share Now -
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. - Havelock Ellis 7 Share Now -
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. - Havelock Ellis 8 Share Now -
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. - Havelock Ellis 9 Share Now -
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. - Havelock Ellis 10 Share Now -