H. G. Wells Quotes, Race Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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The future is the shape of things to come.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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