H. G. Wells Quotes
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.
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For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
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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. 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.
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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
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And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.
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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
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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.
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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
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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.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.