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H. G. Wells Quote: “There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “One may as well starve one’s body out of a place as to starve one’s soul in one.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon all-fours on the floor.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “And this spreading usurpation of the world was so dexterously performed – a proteus – hundreds of banks, companies, syndicates, masked the Council’s operations – that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the tyranny that had come. The.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable – but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don’t give a damn.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “We are always getting away from the present moment.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensional being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Could it be possible, I thought, that such a thing as the vivisection of men was carried on here? The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisation of my own danger.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Most of the social and political ills from which you suffer are under your control, given only the will and courage to change them. You can live in another and a wiser fashion if you choose to think it out and work it out. You are not awake to your own power.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “The sojers’ll stop ’em,” said a woman beside me, doubtfully. A haziness rose over the treetops.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don’t want to waste this model, and then be told I’m a quack.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “In another place was a vast array of idols – Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “What did it matter, since it was unreality, all of it, the pain and desire, the beginning and the end? There was no reality except this solitary road, this quite solitary road, along which on went rather puzzled, rather tired...”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?” Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and – Duration.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have yet to be.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “I feel to think, he thinks to feel. It is I and my kind that have the wider range, because we can be impersonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Like a committee in a thieves’ kitchen when someone has casually mentioned the law.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Our species may yet end its strange eventful history as just the last, the cleverest of the great apes. The great ape that was clever – but not clever enough. It could escape from most things but not from its own mental confusion.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “I ceased even to breathe. It was ridiculous, of course, but you know that ghost-story feeling.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Go to the devil!” said the stranger in a tremendous voice, and “Shut that door after you.” So that brief interview terminated.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “You can’t see beauty with miserable eyes.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “A real value of a talk is not how it goes but what it leaves in your memory, which is one reason perhaps why dialogues in books are always so boring to read.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don’t know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “The present writer is a prophet by use and wont. He is more interested in to-morrow than he is in to-day, and the past is just material for future guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coliseum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men who will.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?”
H. G. Wells Quote: “It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “But wait a moment. Can an instantaneous cube exist?”
H. G. Wells Quote: “There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within – not without. It is each man’s own affair.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised. Although it was at my own expense, I could not help myself. I laughed aloud.”
H. G. Wells Quote: “The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.”
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