H. Havelock Ellis: Quotes about life

H. Havelock Ellis was British physician, writer, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

H. Havelock Ellis
Life , Sex , Understanding , Learning

“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.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 1

Life , Family , Beauty

“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.”

H. Havelock Ellis

Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 2

Life , Beauty , Art , Dance

“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.”

H. Havelock Ellis

The New Spirit (1890)

Life , Sex