Havelock Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis - Impressions and Comments (1914)
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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.

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis - The Dance of Life
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

- Havelock Ellis