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Letter "H" » Henry Ellis Quotes
«The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.»
«The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.»
«The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. . . . A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.»
«If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.»
«It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.»
«Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.»
«A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.»
«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.»
«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.»
«There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.»