H. G. Wells Quotes, Wall Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

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.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

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The Gay Science, section 108

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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