H. G. Wells Quotes, Dream Quotes, Clouds Quotes

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

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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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

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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

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You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

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The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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