Religion Quotes by H.G. Wells

8 Religion quotes by H.G. Wells

Wells imagined futures and alternate realities, and his brief thoughts on belief echo that visionary streak. These eight lines provide a glimpse of how a science‑fiction pioneer contemplates the sacred.

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“We have taken Herodotus as an interesting specimen of what we have called the free intelligence of mankind. Now here we are…

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“Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed…

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“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who…

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“The history of our race and personal religious experience run so closely parallel as to seem to a modern observer almost the…

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“Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he…

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“The essence of its failure was that it could not sustain unity. In its early stages its citizens, both patrician and plebeian,…

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“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the…

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“There's lots will take things as they are--fat and stupid; and lots will be worried by a sort of feeling that it's…

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“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”

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“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the…

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“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if…

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“What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.”

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“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with…

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“Don't follow you,' said Filby.”

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“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,…

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“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

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“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

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“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind -…

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“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from…

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“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.”

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“In the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was a pleasant…

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“The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely…

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“For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a…

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