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H.G. Wells has 300 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…
— Bertrand Russell
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