H. G. Wells Quotes
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.
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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them-that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the
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Raymond Passworthy: But... we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little... little animals.
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
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Marguerite, joyfully: 'We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. We'll never be anyone else.'
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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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.
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
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Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.