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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

H. G. Wells
Wall, Philosophical, Men
H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

H. G. Wells
Christian, Jesus, Heart
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14578, Delphi Classics

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

H. G. Wells
Honesty, Lying, Civilization
"Love and Mr Lewisham". Book by H. G. Wells, Chapter 23, 1899.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. Wells
Our World, Evil, Literature
H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.57, H. G. Wells

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

H. G. Wells
Jesus, Nazareth, Great Christian

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

H. G. Wells
Men, World, Newspapers
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16114, Delphi Classics

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

H. G. Wells
Stars, Heaven, Host
H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. Wells The Dover Reader”, p.449, Courier Dover Publications

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

H. G. Wells
Stars, Space, Forever
"The Outline of History". Book by H. G. Wells, Ch. 41, 1920.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

H. G. Wells
Wise, Men, Heaven
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.34, e-artnow

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

H. G. Wells
Wine, Wife, Degrees
H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

H. G. Wells
Success, Mother, Teacher
H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.30, The Floating Press

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

H. G. Wells
Pain, Doors, Voice
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

H. G. Wells
Simple, Enough, Theory
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.25, 谷月社

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

H. G. Wells
Mother, Night, Mystery
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

We must end war before war ends us.

H. G. Wells
War, Ends

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

H. G. Wells
Time, Hands, Long
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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
Science, Internet, Free Speech
H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.7624, Delphi Classics

The War That Will End War.

H. G. Wells
War, Ends
Title of book (1914). Cf. David Lloyd-George 138:8

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

H. G. Wells
Democracy, Ruins, Athenians
H. G. Wells, J. F. Horrabin, William Ross (2004). “The Outline of History: Prehistory to the Roman Republic”, p.418, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

H. G. Wells
World Government, Order, Nwo
H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

H. G. Wells
Cheer, Self, Patriotism
"The Future in America: A Search After Realities". Book by H. G. Wells, 1906.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

H. G. Wells
Order, People, Singing

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

H. G. Wells
Fear, Lying, Men
Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) ch. 23

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, Hands, Laughing

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

H. G. Wells
Dream, Religion, Stuff
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.5, Monkfish Book Publishing

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