Quotes from Henry Havelock Ellis

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.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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

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

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

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance,