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. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. H. G. Wells teacher retirement jesus I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion H. G. Wells christian evil believe Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. H. G. Wells nature animal children Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. H. G. Wells ratios might men The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. H. G. Wells passion artist men We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. H. G. Wells velocity uniforms time In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. H. G. Wells prehistory humans age A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars. H. G. Wells stars laughing hands Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. H. G. Wells space eye mind And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens. H. G. Wells cities tree wind One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. H. G. Wells character believe fiction To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this. H. G. Wells college teaching mean No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H. G. Wells passion editing writing He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself. H. G. Wells tolerance different fighting New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? H. G. Wells free-speech internet science After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. H. G. Wells dream inspirational memories Cynicism is humor in ill health. H. G. Wells ill-health cynicism humor In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. H. G. Wells political play cards There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. H. G. Wells curse chess men Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture. H. G. Wells scripture delight statistics
