Frases de Havelock Ellis

Henry Havelock Ellis fue un sexólogo, médico y activista social británico.



✵ 2. febrero 1859 – 8. julio 1939   •   Otros nombres Гевлок Елліс
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“What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 6

“"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.”

The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 3 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=nAoAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charm+which+means+the+power+to+effect+work+without+employing+brute+force+is+indispensable+to+women+charm+is+a+woman%27s+strength+just+as+strength+is+a+man%27s+charm%22&pg=PA81#v=onepage

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

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

Fuente: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 3

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

“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.”

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 7

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

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

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

Fuente: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 7

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

Fuente: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 7

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 3

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5

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

Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)

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

Fuente: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5

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

Introduction to Huysman's A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884)

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