Havelock Ellis quote: "The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the nee...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable ex...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of vie...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alo...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and rela...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of a...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere tran...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the r...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

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

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to w...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within rea...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sym...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and ...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becom...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reac...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of ...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could neve...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of p...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more diffic...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure t...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of lif...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

When love is suppressed hate takes its place
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

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

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relat...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slav...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reac...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of p...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

Man lives by imagination.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks
HAVELOCK ELLIS

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met alon...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to imp...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often kn...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman'...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
HENRY HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not ...
ALBERT ELLIS

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the i...
WARREN ELLIS

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work befor...
WARREN ELLIS

I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
WARREN ELLIS

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
WARREN ELLIS

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
WARREN ELLIS

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for h...
WARREN ELLIS

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as...
WARREN ELLIS

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on...
WARREN ELLIS

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
WARREN ELLIS

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
WARREN ELLIS

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
WARREN ELLIS

It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who ha...
WARREN ELLIS

The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up a...
WARREN ELLIS

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousan...
WARREN ELLIS

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't ki...
WARREN ELLIS

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had w...
WARREN ELLIS

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
WARREN ELLIS

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research ab...
WARREN ELLIS

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
WARREN ELLIS

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt tho...
WARREN ELLIS

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...
WARREN ELLIS

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
WARREN ELLIS

I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subcult...
WARREN ELLIS

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
WARREN ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
NELSAN ELLIS

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi...
ALBERT ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock ...
ALBERT ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of...
ALBERT ELLIS

He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.
ALBERT ELLIS

I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't,...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe...
NELSAN ELLIS

I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy,...
ALBERT ELLIS

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
ALBERT ELLIS

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching ...
ALBERT ELLIS

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. N...
ALBERT ELLIS

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
ALBERT ELLIS

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it...
WARREN ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

We believe we have the tools in place to stay on top these metrics going forward. We are starting th...
ANDY ELLIS

A very simple test proved to be remarkably successful at distinguishing people with early Alzheimer'...
ANDY ELLIS

They are animals whose names children tend to learn more at around the age of six to 10 rather than ...
ANDY ELLIS

People with a high vocabulary will often detect that they are having problems, ... but if you give t...
ANDY ELLIS

There is considerable value in identifying people who are beginning to show the first signs and this...
ANDY ELLIS

It is possible that exploring the characteristics of the words that are still available to them migh...
ANDY ELLIS

The next phase of the research is to look into the possibility of making a prognostic guide,
ANDY ELLIS

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
NELSAN ELLIS

We've done really well with the daytime shopping crowd. The type of person that will come in the eve...
AMY ELLIS

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.
AMY ELLIS

Bringing in musicians from around the Tampa Bay area and helping them get to know our town is great.
AMY ELLIS

The biggest thing about this event that's different (is) we've been able to pull in some amazing mus...
AMY ELLIS

In the long run, you see, none of that matters.

I've seen Heaven, Dowling. And it's not a...
WARREN ELLIS

To be honest, that last month of college was one big party.
ALEX ELLIS

Women were becoming more sassy and finding a voice for themselves. I can relate to that a lot.
ALEX ELLIS

I sang my heart out, and afterwards I was like, if I don't get this, that's OK because I gave them e...
ALEX ELLIS

It's a romantic comedy, and it's really, really fun. The play actually just uses just a little bit o...
ALEX ELLIS

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar...
ALBERT ELLIS

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of p...
ALBERT ELLIS

Being different makes you beautiful.
NELSAN ELLIS

Being different gives the world color.
NELSAN ELLIS

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
ELLIS PETERS

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous beca...
ALBERT ELLIS

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my ob...
ALBERT ELLIS

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sen...
ELLIS PETERS

I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Ap...
TOM ELLIS

Eddie was disappointed that he missed those free throws but I told him that we wouldn't have had tha...
BRIAN ELLIS

We played hard in the fourth quarter to get back in the game. We're just not coming to play four qua...
BRIAN ELLIS

We have got to start finding a third or fourth scorer. ... I told the guys before the game tonight (...
BRIAN ELLIS

I wasn't very confident that we could play with Herkimer without Brian Radley but we showed that we ...
BRIAN ELLIS

They understood their roles in how we wanted to break the press. These are mostly guys up from the J...
BRIAN ELLIS

Sometimes you've got to win ugly. We didn't play well on our floor and I think that was because of o...
BRIAN ELLIS

We were not smart on our shot selection early in the game. We've got people on the floor who still h...
BRIAN ELLIS

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.
BRIAN ELLIS

I know West Canada didn't have a real good shooting night but I think sometimes our defense created ...
BRIAN ELLIS

That was a huge play. They stole the rebound and took it from a two-point game to a five-point game ...
BRIAN ELLIS

We've been working really hard on being consistent on both ends. LC is a very consistent team. If yo...
BRENDA ELLIS

Last time we played them, they made some runs and we didn't have any answers. This time LC made a co...
BRENDA ELLIS

That was my hope, to give Brittany plenty of playing time on the JV team. I really figured she would...
BRENDA ELLIS

It was a great team effort, and we've really been working on playing together as a team.
BRENDA ELLIS

Defense was definitely our best offense last night.
BRENDA ELLIS

We've been working on pressure man defense. Early on this season we used some zone, but just with ou...
BRENDA ELLIS

We've been getting some help at practice by playing a 6-foot-5 girl. We've been defending her and sh...
BRENDA ELLIS

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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