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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Our estimates vary with our moods; the time may be much longer than our hopes and much shorter than our fears.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
The War of the Worlds (1898)
But man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of Nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
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.
The Outline of History (1920)
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.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
The Outline of History (1920)
More lives were wasted by the British generals alone on the opening day of what is known as the Somme offensive of July, 1916 than in the whole French Revolution from start to finish.
The Outline of History (1920)
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
He was no mere religious fanatic. For eight and twenty years Asoka worked sanely for the real needs of men.
The Outline of History (1920)
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
The War in the Air (1907)
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Ruling the calm spaciousness of that heaven was the great comet, now green-white, and wonderful for all who had eyes to see.
In the Days of the Comet (1906)
Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
Kipps the Story of a Simple Soul (1905)
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow.
You Can't be Too Careful (1941)
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)
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.
Ashoka (264 to 227 B.C.), one of the great monarchs of history, whose dominions extended from Afghanistan to Madras... is the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory.
The Outline of History (1920)