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Man Quotes by H.G. Wells
- Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
- Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.…
- There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
- The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
- Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.
- Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He…
- The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
- When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
- Chess is a curse upon a man.
- Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to…
- Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or…
- We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate…
- The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such…
- All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could…
- Hunger makes a fool of a man.
- Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that…
- The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
- Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
- While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were…
- They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is…
- 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…
- The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
- I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
- This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle