H. G. Wells Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

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.

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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A young mistress is better than an old master.

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

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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

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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.

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

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

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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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.

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