Quotation:
"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."
More quotes from: Henry Ellis
- "A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. "
- "A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. "
- "All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of ..."
- "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding ..."
- ""Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is ..."
- "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it ..."
- "Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? "
- "Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; ..."
- "Every artist writes his own autobiography. "
- "Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly ..."
- "However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of ..."
- "I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, ..."
- "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature ..."
- "In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the ..."
- "It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an ..."
- "It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his ..."
- "It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. "
- "It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared ..."
- "Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. "
- "Man lives by imagination. "
- "Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the ..."
- "One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also ..."
- "Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. "
- "Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life ..."
- "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. "
- "The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves ..."
- "The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product. "
- "The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions ..."
- "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to ..."
- "The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. "
- "The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our ..."
- "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. "
- "The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means ..."
- "The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. "
- "The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. "
- "The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they ..."
- "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened ..."
- "There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head ..."
- "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without ..."
- "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms ..."
- "To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. "


