So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have ...
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase ...
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and ins...
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ...
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon ...
For after the Battle comes quiet.
