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H. G. Wells Quote: “You’ve made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.”

251. “You’ve made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, – none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them;.”

252. “Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, – none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them;.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.”

253. “But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.”

254. “Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And.”

255. “The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.”

256. “Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.”

257. “By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Fine hospitality,” said I, “to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.”

258. “Fine hospitality,” said I, “to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

259. “I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”

260. “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

261. “There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.”

262. “It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “This blessed gift of smoking!”

263. “This blessed gift of smoking!”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.”

264. “Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “When she was fifteen if you’d told her that when she was twenty she’d be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.”

265. “When she was fifteen if you’d told her that when she was twenty she’d be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”

266. “I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? .”

267. “But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? .”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must.”

268. “What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained.”

269. “And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.”

270. “I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.”

271. “There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture.”

272. “I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the “Lady Vain.””

273. “I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the “Lady Vain.””

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But to me the future is still black and blank – is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And.”

274. “But to me the future is still black and blank – is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “You may kill me, but I can hold you – and all the universe for that matter – in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now.”

275. “You may kill me, but I can hold you – and all the universe for that matter – in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.”

276. “The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”

277. “There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

278. “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”

279. “Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “He, I know – for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made – thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.”

280. “He, I know – for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made – thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.”

281. “You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast – is choice.”

282. “The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast – is choice.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.”

283. “Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Let’s be sure we’d be acting perfectly right in bustin’ that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.”

284. “Let’s be sure we’d be acting perfectly right in bustin’ that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Bless my soul alive!”

285. “Bless my soul alive!”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.”

286. “In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Few people realize the immensity of vacancy.”

287. “Few people realize the immensity of vacancy.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Security sets a premium on feebleness.”

288. “Security sets a premium on feebleness.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives – all that was over.”

289. “All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives – all that was over.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

290. “In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.”

291. “So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings, that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him.”

292. “Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings, that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.”

293. “Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

294. “Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

295. “I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.”

296. “The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate – shall I say third-rate? – mind, Karl Marx.”

297. “The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate – shall I say third-rate? – mind, Karl Marx.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

298. “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.”

299. “And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.”

300. “The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.”

— H. G. Wells

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