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To live remains an art which e...

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Havelock Ellis 174 quotes

The largely objective characte...

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.

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Philosophy is a purely persona...

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

Havelock Ellis 174 quotes

Men who know themselves are no...

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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Civilized men arrived in the P...

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

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The mother is the child's supr...

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

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The mother is really a more im...

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

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We cannot be sure that we ough...

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

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No faith is our own that we ha...

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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Even the most scientific inves...

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the 'name' of a thing.

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In philosophy, it is not the a...

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

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There is nothing more fragile ...

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

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Dancing and building are the t...

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came

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There can be no sexual love wi...

There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiatedas to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exqu

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Einstein is notmerely an artis...

Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

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Greek is the embodiment of the...

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

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Courtship, properly understood...

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

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Reproduction is so primitive a...

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

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I regard sex as the central pr...

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sexЂ'with the racial questions that rest on itЂ'stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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The modesty of women, which, i...

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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