Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis was a British physician, writer and social reformer. Ellis is famous in the medical world for having studied human sexuality. He also co-authored the very first medical textbook in English that approached the topic homosexuality in 1897. Ellis published works on various sexual practices and inclinations, such as transgender psychology.

He served as vice-president to the Eugenics Education Society and wrote vast articles and studies on the subject. In January 1931 He resigned from the Eugenics Society, due to their stance on sterilization.

Date of birth:
2nd February, 1859
Date of death:
8th July, 1939
"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."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Architecture
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Nature
"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Beauty
"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Education
"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Music
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Change
"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."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Education
"Man lives by imagination."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Imagination
"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Death
"‘Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm."
― Havelock Ellis
Topic(s): Power

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