Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.

Quotes

Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Progress
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Optimism
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Beauty
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Civilization