59 ordspråk av Henry Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis föddes den February 2nd 1859 och dog den 8 July 1939 - English psychologist
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 Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. |
| In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. |
| Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Man lives by imagination. |
| Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. |
| Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. |
| One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take |
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