Frases de Havelock Ellis

“O que chamamos progresso é a substituição de uma praga por outra.”

“O destino de um homem não está no futuro e sim no passado.”

“Para se ser um líder de homens é preciso virar-lhes as costas.”

“Um homem não deve engolir mais crenças do que ele pode digerir.”

“O lugar onde o otimismo floresce melhor é o asilo de loucos.”

“Todo homem de gênio vê o mundo sob um ângulo diferente do dos seus semelhantes, e é nisso que está a sua tragédia.”

“Sonhos são reais enquanto duram. Podemos dizer mais da vida?”

“What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

“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.”

“Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.”

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

“"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.”

“Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”

“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.”

“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.”

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”

“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”

“The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago…had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”

“The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.”

“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.”

“In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.”

“It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.”

“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.”

“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”

“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”