Top 14 Ellen Key Quotes



At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

 

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

 

When one paints an ideal one does not need to limit one’s imagination.

 

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

 

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire – that is to give him a real moral strength.

 

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

 

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.

 

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

 

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

 

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

 

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.

 

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

 

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

 

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

 

 

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