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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

There were half a dozen villas burning on the Woking border.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'

'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

This is day one of year one of the new epoch,
the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First.

Help me - and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power. He

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

All passion is madness.

You can't reach your hand into the space of tomorrow!

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.

The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world
and it was everywhere.

What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity - the self!

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture ...

It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

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

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.

Life falls into place only with God.

I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

I felt amazingly confident, - it's not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.

Cynisism is humour in ill health.

But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Strength is the outcome of need;

Like a committee in a thieves' kitchen when someone has casually mentioned the law.

domestic economy for her private study.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

You can't see beauty with miserable eyes.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

There is only one sort of man who is absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary.

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.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.

Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

There's some ex-traordinary things in books, said the mariner.

Bless my soul alive!

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?

...the sense of my utter loneliness had been agony...

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

We're eatable ants.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

I am asking for Liberal Fascists, for enlightened Nazis.

There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue. I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Few people realize the immensity of vacancy.

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.

One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

Indolent, and he was suffering greatly from gout. He abdicated.

And through it all, this destiny was before me," he said; "this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.

It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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

But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in

I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day

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

Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.

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

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.