Havelock Ellis Quotes

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Art is all a matter of personality.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament,, and embrace it with passion.

People are always going to say what they want to say and believe what they want to believe, but that's the bottom line.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Everybody is allowed to have their own opinion.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.