Top quotes by H. G. Wells

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. Votes: 33

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. Votes: 27

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. Votes: 22

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. Votes: 17

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. Votes: 16

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Votes: 16

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. Votes: 15

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. Votes: 14

What really matters is what you do with what you have. Votes: 12

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. Votes: 11

Cynicism is humor in ill health. Votes: 11

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. Votes: 10

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. Votes: 8

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 8

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. Votes: 7

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. Votes: 7

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. Votes: 5

The past is but the past of a beginning. Votes: 4

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. Votes: 4

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception." Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

History is a race between education and catastrophe. Votes: 3

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If we don't end war, war will end us. Votes: 1

This isn't a war, said the artilleryman. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Votes: 1

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war. Votes: 1

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career. Votes: 1

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. Votes: 1

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Votes: 0

Advertising is legalized lying. Votes: 0

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. Votes: 0

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Votes: 0

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. Votes: 0

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. Votes: 0

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. Votes: 0

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. Votes: 0

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world. Votes: 0

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. Votes: 0

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. Votes: 0

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. Votes: 0

Good books are the warehouses of ideas. Votes: 0

Our true nationality is mankind. Votes: 0

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. Votes: 0

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize. Votes: 0

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. Votes: 0

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. Votes: 0

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? Votes: 0

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. Votes: 0

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. Votes: 0

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done. Votes: 0

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. Votes: 0

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. Votes: 0

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. Votes: 0

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. Votes: 0

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. Votes: 0

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. Votes: 0

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. Votes: 0

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. Votes: 0

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out. Votes: 0

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. Votes: 0

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. Votes: 0

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it. Votes: 0

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. Votes: 0

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. Votes: 0

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. Votes: 0

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. Votes: 0

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity. Votes: 0

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders. Votes: 0

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. Votes: 0

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent. Votes: 0

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. Votes: 0

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. Votes: 0

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of. Votes: 0

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night. Votes: 0

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents... Votes: 0

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. Votes: 0

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Strength is the outcome of need. Votes: 0

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty. Votes: 0

...the ethical system that will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity - beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds - and to check the procreation of base and servile type. Votes: 0

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. Votes: 0

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. Votes: 0

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death! Votes: 0

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. Votes: 0

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. Votes: 0

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful Votes: 0

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. Votes: 0

Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently. Votes: 0

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. Votes: 0

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. Votes: 0

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. Votes: 0

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be. Votes: 0

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? Votes: 0

A boy is a creature of odd feelings. Votes: 0

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you. Votes: 0

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. Votes: 0

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. Votes: 0

But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state. Votes: 0

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky. Votes: 0

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The future is the shape of things to come. Votes: 0

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse. Votes: 0

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. Votes: 0

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. Votes: 0

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Votes: 0

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel. Votes: 0

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. Votes: 0

I hope, or I could not live. Votes: 0

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have. Votes: 0

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. Votes: 0

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. Votes: 0

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. Votes: 0

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. Votes: 0

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. Votes: 0

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. Votes: 0

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. Votes: 0

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are. Votes: 0

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. Votes: 0

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. Votes: 0

... life falls into place only with God. Votes: 0

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people. Votes: 0

...fact takes no heed of human hopes. Votes: 0

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. Votes: 0

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea. Votes: 0

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. Votes: 0

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string. Votes: 0

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars. Votes: 0

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce. Votes: 0

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?" Votes: 0

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. Votes: 0

A young mistress is better than an old master. Votes: 0

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. Votes: 0

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented. Votes: 0

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. Votes: 0

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. Votes: 0

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I? Votes: 0

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. Votes: 0

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens ... Votes: 0

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby? Votes: 0

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?' Votes: 0

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky. Votes: 0

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. Votes: 0

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous. Votes: 0

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. Votes: 0

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. Votes: 0

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter. Votes: 0

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people. Votes: 0

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Chess is a curse upon a man. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. Votes: 0

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. Votes: 0

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death. Votes: 0

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another. Votes: 0

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving. Votes: 0

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all. Votes: 0

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that's it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For after the Battle comes quiet. Votes: 0

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. Votes: 0

Go away. I'm all right. [last words] Votes: 0

Go away... I'm alright. Votes: 0

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself. Votes: 0

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. Votes: 0

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. Votes: 0

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. Votes: 0

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. Votes: 0

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. Votes: 0

Hunger makes a fool of a man. Votes: 0

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"¦ Votes: 0

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies. Votes: 0

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it. Votes: 0

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion Votes: 0

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic. Votes: 0

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made. Votes: 0

I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger? Votes: 0

I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away. Votes: 0

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. Votes: 0

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe... Votes: 0

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. Votes: 0

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations. Votes: 0

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. Votes: 0

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply. Votes: 0

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. Votes: 0

I write to cover a frame of ideas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting Votes: 0

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way? Votes: 0

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. Votes: 0

If the world does not please you, you can change it. Votes: 0

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters. Votes: 0

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. Votes: 0

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history. Votes: 0

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. Votes: 0

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not an extension of time Votes: 0

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists. Votes: 0

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity. Votes: 0

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits. Votes: 0

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts? Votes: 0

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution "“ that is to say, an effective "˜dictatorship of prosperity,' for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it. Votes: 0

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. Votes: 0

It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin Votes: 0

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning. Votes: 0

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller. Votes: 0

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen. Votes: 0

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time. Votes: 0

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Votes: 0

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. Votes: 0

Life is two things. Life is morality "“ life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds "“ adventure. Votes: 0

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties. Votes: 0

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. Votes: 0

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. Votes: 0

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. Votes: 0

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Votes: 0

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship. Votes: 0

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. Votes: 0

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. 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. Votes: 0

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. Votes: 0

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. Votes: 0

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Votes: 0

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it? Votes: 0

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. Votes: 0

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being Votes: 0

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen. Votes: 0

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives. Votes: 0

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. Votes: 0

Only people who are well off can be - complex. Votes: 0

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door. Votes: 0

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. Votes: 0

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. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream. Votes: 0

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning. Votes: 0

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. Votes: 0

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... Votes: 0

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Votes: 0

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death? Votes: 0

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. Votes: 0

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men. Votes: 0

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... Votes: 0

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! Votes: 0

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. Votes: 0

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. Votes: 0

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean. Votes: 0

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind. Votes: 0

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past. Votes: 0

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion. Votes: 0

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing. Votes: 0

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos... Votes: 0

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice Votes: 0

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe"”I have thought since"”I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall. Votes: 0

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. Votes: 0

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice. Votes: 0

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India. Votes: 0

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved"¦ Votes: 0

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. Votes: 0

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran"”a grotesque mingling of profit and panic. Votes: 0

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. Votes: 0

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last. Votes: 0

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world Votes: 0

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart..... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. Votes: 0

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed. Votes: 0

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. Votes: 0

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. Votes: 0

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. Votes: 0

The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster. Votes: 0

The War That Will End War. Votes: 0

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole. Votes: 0

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young. Votes: 0

There are no social differences - till women come in. Votes: 0

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex. Votes: 0

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. Votes: 0

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl. Votes: 0

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. Votes: 0

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess Votes: 0

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe. Votes: 0

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity? Votes: 0

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's truths you have to grow into. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This blessed gift of smoking! Votes: 0

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Votes: 0

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. Votes: 0

This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order. Votes: 0

To be honest, one must be inconsistent. Votes: 0

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man"”the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become"”this. Votes: 0

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot. Votes: 0

Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end. Votes: 0

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! Votes: 0

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights. Votes: 0

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. Votes: 0

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. Votes: 0

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world's peace, or we must be prepared for "“ a continuation of war. Votes: 0

We must end war before war ends us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is! Votes: 0

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear. Votes: 0

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing. Votes: 0

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker. Votes: 0

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die. Votes: 0

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Votes: 0

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way? Votes: 0

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. Votes: 0

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about 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 he must go. Votes: 0

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact. Votes: 0

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere. Votes: 0

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. Votes: 0

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception. Votes: 0

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world Votes: 0

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings. Votes: 0

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound. Votes: 0

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions. Votes: 0

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear. Votes: 0