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Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis

  • Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
  • The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
  • What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
  • 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.
  • The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
  • Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life
  • Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.