Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (1859–1939,) was a British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
—Havelock Ellis
Topics: War, Achievement
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
—Havelock Ellis
Topics: Genius
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
Topics: Being Ourselves
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
—Havelock Ellis
Topics: Dreams
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
—Havelock Ellis
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
—Havelock Ellis
Topics: Danger, Risk
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