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

— Havelock Ellis

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.

— Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

— Havelock Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

— Havelock Ellis

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

— Havelock Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Havelock Ellis

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

— Havelock Ellis