Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 02. Februar 1859 |
Geburtsort | United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland |
Todesort | United_Kingdom |
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Beschreibung | Henry Havelock Ellis (2. Februar 1859 - 8. Juli 1939) war ein englischer Arzt, Eugeniker, Schriftsteller, fortschrittlicher Intellektueller und Sozialreformer, der die menschliche Sexualität erforschte. Er war 1897 Mitverfasser des ersten medizinischen Lehrbuchs über Homosexualität in englischer Sprache und veröffentlichte außerdem Werke über eine Vielzahl sexueller Praktiken und Neigungen sowie über die Psychologie der Transgender. Ihm wird die Einführung der Begriffe Narzissmus und Autoerotik zugeschrieben, die später von der Psychoanalyse übernommen wurden. |
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
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.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves 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.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Man lives by imagination.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
