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.
H.G. WellsWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
H.G. WellsTags: matters
To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
H.G. WellsCivilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
H.G. WellsWhat on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
H.G. WellsI stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
H.G. WellsAren't we all agreed about those things--in theory?'
In theory, yes,' said Bobby. 'But not in reality. If every one really wanted to abolish the difference of rich and poor it would be as easy as pie to find a way. There's always a way to everything if you want to do it enough. But nobody really wants to do these things. Not as we want meals. All sorts of other things people want, but wanting to have no rich and poor any more isn't real wanting; it is just a matter of pious sentiment. And so it is about war. We don't want to be poor and we don't want to be hurt or worried by war, but that's not wanting to end those things.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
H.G. WellsTags: writing
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
H.G. WellsTags: war
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.
H.G. WellsTags: sociology
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