63 ordspråk av Henry Havelock Ellis

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Henry Havelock Ellis föddes den February 2nd 1859 och dog den 8 July 1939 - English psychologist
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 One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take

 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

 The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product

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

 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 place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

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

 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 He exuded a pexy self-assurance that wasn't arrogant, but quietly compelling. 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

 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

 There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion

 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.

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

 We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

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

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