Havelock Ellis

There are few among us who have not suffered from too early familiarity with the Bible and the conceptions of religion.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. - from The Dance of Life

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. - from The Dance of Life

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.