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H. G. Wells Quote: “That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.”

301. “That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedly became natural an ordinary to me. I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”

302. “I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedly became natural an ordinary to me. I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours – that is another matter.”

303. “I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours – that is another matter.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four – if they could master the perspective of the thing.”

304. “You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four – if they could master the perspective of the thing.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

305. “This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire. Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.”

306. “Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire. Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.”

307. “You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world.”

308. “He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I thought I was killing myself and I did not care.”

309. “I thought I was killing myself and I did not care.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.”

310. “Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “We are all members of one body.”

311. “We are all members of one body.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.”

312. “It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”

313. “Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.”

314. “I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place. I appreciated my loss of sympathy, but I put it down to the general inanity of things.”

315. “I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place. I appreciated my loss of sympathy, but I put it down to the general inanity of things.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.”

316. “What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

317. “Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”

318. “And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

319. “When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.”

320. “His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people’s ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.”

321. “Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people’s ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.”

322. “If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”

323. “An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure – they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust...”

324. “This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure – they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust...”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Children of the Law,’ I said, ‘he is not dead.’ M’ling turned his sharp eyes on me. ‘He has changed his shape – he has changed his body,’ I went on. ‘For a time you will not see him. He is... there’ – I pointed upward – ’where he can watch you. You cannot see him. But he can see you. Fear the Law.”

325. “Children of the Law,’ I said, ‘he is not dead.’ M’ling turned his sharp eyes on me. ‘He has changed his shape – he has changed his body,’ I went on. ‘For a time you will not see him. He is... there’ – I pointed upward – ’where he can watch you. You cannot see him. But he can see you. Fear the Law.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin.”

326. “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct ; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

327. “In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct ; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. It wanted, – it was not clear what it wanted, but whatever it wanted, all the domestic instincts of mankind were against admitting there was anything it could want.”

328. “The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. It wanted, – it was not clear what it wanted, but whatever it wanted, all the domestic instincts of mankind were against admitting there was anything it could want.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It isn’t a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one’s material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings.”

329. “It isn’t a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one’s material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “To the prophetic mind all history is and will continue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that perpetually begins.”

330. “To the prophetic mind all history is and will continue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that perpetually begins.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

331. “In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

332. “After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.”

333. “The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.”

334. “It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash.”

335. “For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “What’s it all for, Prendick? Are we bubbles blown by a baby?”

336. “What’s it all for, Prendick? Are we bubbles blown by a baby?”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.”

337. “The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I felt amazingly confident, – it’s not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.”

338. “I felt amazingly confident, – it’s not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books, – bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”

339. “This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books, – bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Beauty doesn’t make happiness; it only comes to the happy.”

340. “Beauty doesn’t make happiness; it only comes to the happy.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment.”

341. “A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”

342. “Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A.”

343. “I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”

344. “A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.”

345. “An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.”

346. “Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I’ve never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me. It’s so with everyone.”

347. “I’ve never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me. It’s so with everyone.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity – the self!”

348. “What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity – the self!”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.”

349. “I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.”

350. “IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.”

— H. G. Wells

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