Nice Quotes #20: H.G. Wells

truth-revelation (73) in nicequotes • 7 years ago

For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilization progressed.

H.G. Wells

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truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau —

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

And then," said Sarnac, "I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand years ago? Or two weeks ago? I sat in Fanny's little sitting-room, an old-world creature amidst her old-world furnishings, and I said that men and women would not always suffer as we were suffering then. I said that we were still poor savages, living only in the bleak dawn of civilisation, and that we suffered because we were under-bred, under-trained and darkly ignorant of ourselves, that the mere fact that we knew our own unhappiness was the promise of better things and that a day would come when charity and understanding would light the world so that men and women would no longer hurt themselves and one another as they were doing now everywhere, universally, in law and in restriction and in jealousy and in hate, all round and about the earth.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

Mankind has got to start getting the big things right.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.

truth-revelation (73) · 7 years ago

We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights - so be it! But one thing is real and certain, one thing is no dream-stuff, but eternal and enduring. It is the centre of my life, and all other things about it are subordinate or altogether vain. I loved her, that woman of a dream. And she and I are dead together!