"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): Religion More From Havelock Ellis "It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." More In Religion "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion."― John Keegan "Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."― Robert Green Ingersoll "In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."― Charles Eastman