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

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Sivilisasjon

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces

Affärslivet

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

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

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

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