{"author":"Havelock Ellis","author_id":"Havelock+Ellis","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["exercise","early","affection "],"id":13520,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["life","letting go","living "],"id":15862,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality  it cannot be transferred. No two persons  if sincere  can have the same philosophy.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["right"],"id":44775,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... Had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["stars","sun","moon "],"id":90660,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["love","alive","dragon "],"id":96291,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["faith","unity"],"id":109801,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"However well organized the foundations of life may be  life must always be full of risks.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["risks"],"id":118363,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"In philosophy  it is not the attainment of the goal that matters  it is the things that are met with by the way.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["philosophy"],"id":122118,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["human","relations"],"id":127773,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["progress"],"id":148268,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}