A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
- Henry Ellis Quote

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- Henry Ellis Quote

"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.
- Henry Ellis Quote

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
- Henry Ellis Quote

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- Henry Ellis Quote

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
- Henry Ellis Quote

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
- Henry Ellis Quote

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
- Henry Ellis Quote

Man lives by imagination.
- Henry Ellis Quote

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- Henry Ellis Quote

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
- Henry Ellis Quote

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
- Henry Ellis Quote

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.
- Henry Ellis Quote

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.
- Henry Ellis Quote

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
- Henry Ellis Quote

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.
- Henry Ellis Quote

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Henry Ellis Quote

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
- Henry Ellis Quote

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
- Henry Ellis Quote

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

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.
- Henry Ellis Quote

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

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
- Henry Ellis Quote

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
- Henry Ellis Quote