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The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The Discovery of the Future (1901)
Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of greatness — waiting for the Food.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
The Time Machine (1895)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
More living men cherish his memory to-day than have ever heard the names of Constantine or Charlemagne.
The Outline of History (1920)
All the miseries and discontents of life are due, he taught, to selfishness.
The Outline of History (1920)
For neither do men live nor die in vain.
The War of the Worlds (1898)
Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
The War of the Worlds (1898)
The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.
The World Set Free (1913)
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.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
The Invisible Man (1897)
The young are life, and there is no hope but in them.
The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
The Outline of History (1920)