Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have yet to be.
There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a l...
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and...
The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Be...
In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise...
I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye, said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation. The fact is, I'm all here:head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I'm invisibl...
I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanenc...
Fact takes no heed of human hopes.
They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight. They wanted fun, they wanted spice, they wanted hits, they wanted also a chance to say "'Ear, 'ea...
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable...
…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
إن أسوأ الأشياء التي تخيف البشر الفانين.. هو الخوف! الخوف الذي لا ضوء له ولا صوت،الذي لا يخضع للمنطق،ولكنه يصم ويعمي ويسيطر.
One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
Asked Kemp. Three or four hours—the cat. The bones and sinews and the fat were the last to go, and the tips of the coloured hairs. And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent
[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,