Quote by H.G. Wells

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

— H.G. Wells

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces”

— Tom Holland

“There is nothing more foreign to the hermit than the clownery of a glittering career, success, and all those vulgar illusions that tempt the…

— Cornelius Wencel

“In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it…

— Jack Whyte

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton