British - Psychologist | February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis
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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
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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.
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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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