Havelock Ellis Quotes

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I like the cerebral process.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

An idea is a feat of association.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.