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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.

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.

H. G. Wells
Writing, Heart, Blow
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3110, Delphi Classics

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

H. G. Wells
Mean, Air, Dust
H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3227, e-artnow

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

H. G. Wells
Men, Lasts, Study
H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.49, Broadview Press

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

H. G. Wells
Dream, Believe, Future
H. G. Wells (2015). “Discovery of the Future: Illustrated”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

H. G. Wells
Dream, Strong, Stress
1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.7.

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

H. G. Wells
Life, History, Curse

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells
Numbers, People, Phrases
HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.4, Monkfish Book Publishing

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

H. G. Wells
Art, Lying, Believe
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

H. G. Wells
Engineering, Bridges, Iron
H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

H. G. Wells
Fashion, Educational, Moving

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

H. G. Wells
Writing, Ambition, Literature

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

H. G. Wells
Song, Trying, Records

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

H. G. Wells
Individuality, Conflict, Ultimate
H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.11, e-artnow

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

H. G. Wells
People, Very Deep
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Wonderful Visit”, p.7, H. G. Wells

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

H. G. Wells
Needs, Gone, Outcomes
H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

H. G. Wells
Promise, May, Firsts

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

H. G. Wells
Art, Fate, Energy
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine: Classic Fantasy Action and Adventure Mystery Horror Humour Science fiction comic Art”, p.31, Fantasia Publish

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

H. G. Wells
Men, May, Able
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

H. G. Wells
Real, Silly, Race
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.725, Delphi Classics

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

H. G. Wells
Age, Prehistory, Humans

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

H. G. Wells
Writing, Thinking, Average
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. Wells
Time, Years, Rely Upon
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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
Teaching, Mean, College
H. G. Wells (2009). “The Invisible Man”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

H. G. Wells
Men, Voice, Swearing
H. G. Wells (2012). “The Invisible Man”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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, Wind, Tree
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.843, Delphi Classics

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