Very well, said the Voice, in a tone of relief. Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently.
I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round hi...
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.
This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky all-right feeling, that had...
They ought not to have let things come to this, he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why They were nor what This was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these...
There is no way out or round or through.
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the pub...
I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educ...
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .
For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confron...
The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them....
We have nothing to destroy, said Rud. All these things are done for already. They are falling in all over the world. They are dead. No need for destructive activities. But if we have nothing to destro...
To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth. On your behalf. . . .
This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books,—bright windows...
The queer thing is that we do trust you, said Bodisham. In spite of your -- extremism.You'd better, said Rud with grim conviction. I'm right. What is extremism? The whole truth and nothing but the tru...
He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a filmy pha...
For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.
Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
فأنا لا أفهم لماذا لا نستطيع الاستمتاع بمثل هذه المتع البسيطة عندما نكبر؟ولماذا يتضمن نضوجنا نسيان الكثير من الأمور.