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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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

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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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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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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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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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

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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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