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Quotes by Henry Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
 
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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.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
 
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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money. and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 3
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Source: Selected Essays
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 5
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What we call "progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 6
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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 (1859 - 1939)
Source: The New Spirit
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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 (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 7
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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 (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 3
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Henry Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Source: The Dance of Life, 1923, ch. 3
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