As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, i...
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.
We should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.
The whole world, he said, is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law. The Common Man has been trying to get his Radicalism said and done plainly and clearly for a hundred...
The time traveller proceeded, any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thicknessa and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will ex...
The present writer is a prophet by use and wont. He is more interested in to-morrow than he is in to-day, and the past is just material for future guessing. Think of the men who have walked here! said...
The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion...
Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.
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 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.
I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material...
I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it sufferin...
He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation onl...
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...
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.
تلك الحجرة المظلمة،والهواء العليل والسماء الرائعة،وهاهي حسنائي بذراعيها البضين،وثوبها الأنيق..وكيف جلسنا وتحادثنا بكلام أقرب إلى الهمس..وكنا نتكلم همسا،ليس لأن هناك من يسمع كلامنا،ولكن لأنه كان ثمة صف...
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.