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Henry Ellis Quotes


The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

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.

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 mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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 most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

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

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

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