H. G. Wells Quotes, Moving Quotes, Adventure Quotes

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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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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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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If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

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Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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

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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

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