Havelock Ellis

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human being #known #morality #needs

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

— Havelock Ellis

#aught #give #giving #how #know

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

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

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #greatest #instead #machines #make

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

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#individual #individual person #intimate #most #person

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#connection #hypnotic #intimate #phenomena #religion

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

— Havelock Ellis

#leader #men #must #turn