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

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

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.

— Havelock Ellis

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

— Havelock Ellis

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

— Havelock Ellis

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.

— Havelock Ellis

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.

— Havelock Ellis