Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

— Havelock Ellis

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

— Havelock Ellis

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

— Havelock Ellis

Man lives by imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

— Havelock Ellis