It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.
I have wasted strength, time, opportunities. Alone — it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
Every symbiosis is in its degree underlain by hostility, and only by proper regulation and often elaborate adjustment, can the state of mutual benefit be maintained. Even in human affairs, partnership...
By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost,and that persuasion made me ca...
Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surrounds. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never dies, fretted by a law they could not understa...
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.
You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
But I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back.
You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.
What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to t...
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.
The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a wom...
Over me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life...