Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis, was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer 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 is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth2 February 1859
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Beauty is the child of love.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.