Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed...
In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how n...
I wonder, said Graham.Ostrog stared.Must the world go this way? said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. Must it indeedgo in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?What do you mean? said...
I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.
I had never realised it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision. This
I felt amazingly confident,—it’s not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.
He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.
He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.
He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days, the years of vicious life he had led since then, one act of sel...
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers.
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is no...
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great...
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
ثمة قانون للطبيعة،كثيرا مانهمل التفكير فيه هو أن تعدد وازدهار اتقاد الإمكانيات العقلية بمثابة تعويض عن التغيير والخطر والمتاعب التي تواجه الإنسان،إن حيوانا في حالة تكيف كامل مع بيئته هو مجرد آلة لا تف...
What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?