On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women’s social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity – among other reasons, because woman’s sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions. Ellen Key Read Quote
When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology – that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined. Ellen Key Read Quote
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life’s gracious gifts to its elect. Ellen Key Read Quote
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society. Ellen Key Read Quote
The present practice is to impress one’s own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact. Ellen Key Read Quote
Every young person has to bear the burden – heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer – of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be. Ellen Key Read Quote
The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. Ellen Key Read Quote
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail. Ellen Key Read Quote
The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism – in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism – towards the perfecting of earthly life. Ellen Key Read Quote
One can best observe a movement of the time – its dangers as well as its advantages – by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form. Ellen Key Read Quote
