It's against reason, said Filby.What reason? said the Time Traveller.
Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn’t one be free? Really free? Guarding one’s freedom, wasn’t freedom at all. Why cou...
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
And suddenly he became almost lyric. For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one for...
What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?
And then, said Sarnac, I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand years ago? Or two weeks ago? I sat in Fanny's little sitting-room, an old-world creature amidst h...
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.
It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There is must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matt...
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
A boy is a creature of odd feelings.
There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control.
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it...
Our true nationality is mankind.
It doesn't take ten years of study, you don't need to go to the University, to find out that this is a damned good world gone wrong. Gone wrong, because it is being monkeyed with by people too greedy...
You English, said Steenhold.You Americans, said Rud.When you aren't as fresh as paint, he said, you Americans are as stale as old cabbage leaves. I'm amazed at your Labour leaders, at the sort of thin...
Where there is no derision the people perish, said Chiffan.Now who said that? asked Steenhold, always anxious to check his quotations. It sounds familiar.I said it, said Chiffan. Get on with your sugg...
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infini...
It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
I never blame anyone, said Kemp. It's quite out of fashion.