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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

H. G. Wells
Watches, World, Way
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

H. G. Wells
Special, World, Lasts
H. G. Wells “Outline of History”, Jazzybee Verlag

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

H. G. Wells
War, Age, Revolution
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.5437, Delphi Classics

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

H. G. Wells
Class, Alliances, Able
H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.351, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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.

H. G. Wells
Dream, Clouds, Land

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

H. G. Wells
Stars, Dust, People
H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

H. G. Wells
Time, Moving, Space
H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells
Humor, Ill Health, Cynicism
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

H. G. Wells
Russia, People, Made

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

H. G. Wells
Men, Fool, Hunger
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.5739, e-artnow

Ignorance is not an extension of time

H. G. Wells
Inspirational, Success, Ignorance

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

H. G. Wells
World Government, Stronger, Needs

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

H. G. Wells
Writing, Way, Walks
H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.397, Read Books Ltd

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

H. G. Wells
Science, Sensitive, Theologian

There are no social differences - till women come in.

H. G. Wells
Women, Differences, Social
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1720, Delphi Classics

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

H. G. Wells
Military, War, Men
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14923, Delphi Classics

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

H. G. Wells
Time, Stars, Men
"Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

H. G. Wells
Art, Attitude, Taken
H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.47, Read Books Ltd

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H. G. Wells
Church, Sailor, Hell

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

H. G. Wells
Doors, Use, Stolen
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.24, 谷月社

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

H. G. Wells
Children, Mean, Opportunity
H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

H. G. Wells
Money, Disappointment, Hate

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

H. G. Wells
War, Men, Thinking

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

H. G. Wells
War, Men, Ants
H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated War of the Worlds with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.190, Powell Publications, LLC

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

H. G. Wells
Past, Experience, Events

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