Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile. Not a single one but has at some time wept.
H.G. Wells Quotes
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
He had ideas about everything. He could no more help having ideas about everything than a dog can resist smelling at your heels.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
I have seen the devil in my microscope, and I have chained him.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Without the idea of progress life is a corrupting marsh.
