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.
Havelock EllisIt 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.
Havelock EllisIt 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.
Havelock EllisAll civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock EllisAt the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis