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• Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of 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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• Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

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

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• The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

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• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

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• 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.

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• The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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• 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.

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• When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

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• Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher’s credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

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

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

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

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• However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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• Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

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• Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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Havelock Ellis (65)

Birth:	2nd February, 1859
Death:	8th July, 1939
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Physician, Psychologist, Writer

About

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis was born in Croydon, Surrey, England. He was an English physician, Psychologist and writer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as transgender psychology. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School now part of King's College London, but never had a regular medical practice. He wrote several books include: The criminal, The new spirit, Man and Woman, Studies in the psychology of sex, Sexual Inversion(with J.A. Symonds), Sexual selection in man, The soul of Spain, The world of dreams, The dance of life, The love rights of women, Psychology of Sex, and Sex and Marriage.

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