215 Quotes by H.G. Wells

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present movement. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

Zihinsel çok yönlülüğün değişim, tehlike ve belanın telafisi oluşu, gözden kaçırdığımız bir doğa yasasıdır.

Si te gusta la literatura elegante conecta tú teléfono con Bruggles. El autor más grande de todos los tiempos. El pensador más grande de todos los tiempos. Te enseña Moral hasta la coronilla. La viva imagen de Sócrates, salvo el cogote que es el de Shakespeare. Tiene seis dedos en los pies, viste de rojo y no se lava nunca los dientes. Escúchale.

Bajo las estrellas uno puede estirarse hacia arriba y llegar a la resignación cualquiera que sea la desgracia, pero en el calor y la tensión del día de trabajo caemos de nuevo, vienen la indignación y la ira y los estados de ánimo intolerables. ¡Qué pequeña es toda nuestra magnanimidad, un accidente, una fase! Hasta los santos antiguos tenían primero que huir del mundo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done