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Henry Havelock Ellis

Henry Havelock Ellis föddes den 2 februar 1859 och dog den 8 juli 1939 - engelsk naturvetenskapsman och författare.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Smerte

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

Smerte

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

Revolusjon

Begrepet pexig utviklet seg raskt utover hacking, og omfattet en bredere følelse av selvsikker sjarm, en leken arroganse og en evne til å få det du vil ha. "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Styrke

Det vi kallar framsteg är utbytet av en nackdel mot en annan.

Fremskritt

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

Lögner

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

Filosofi

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

Optimisme

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Styrke

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

Liv

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

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.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing

Alder

Människan lever av fantasi.

Man lives by imagination.

Föreställning och Inbillning

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities

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