H. G. Wells Quotes, Wall Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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