H. G. Wells Quotes, Eggs Quotes, Light Quotes

[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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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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.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

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

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