Quotes

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Our true nationality is mankind.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Inside these old forgotten books on shelves are wonders, miracles!

In these undiscovered books on the shelf there are marvels, miracles!

There's this idle feeling that settles when the day's work is done and you just want to ride around on a bike. That's the time for sex.

The minds of our comfortable and influential ruling-class people refuse to accept the plain intimation that their time is over, that the Balance of Power and uncontrolled business methods cannot continue, and that Hitler, like the Hohenzollerns, is a mere offensive pustule on the face of a deeply ailing world. To get rid of him and his Nazis will be no more a cure for the world's ills than scraping will cure measles. The disease will manifest itself in some new eruption. It is the system of nationalist individualism and uncoordinated enterprise that is the world's disease, and it is the whole system that has to go.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

He showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient.

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them

it is a curious little thing to note that the unlimited growth of the lunar brain has rendered unnecessary the invention of all those mechanical aids to brain work which have distinguished the career of man. There are no books, no records of any sort, no libraries or inscriptions. All knowledge is stored in distended brains much as the honey-ants of Texas store honey in their distended abdomens. The lunar Somerset House and the lunar British Museum Library are collections of living brains...

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I explained to him how our science was growing by the united labours of innumerable little men, and on that he made no comment save that it was evident we had mastered much in spite of our social savagery, or we could not have come to the moon. Yet the contrast was very marked. With knowledge the Selenites grew and changed; mankind stored their knowledge about them and remained brutes-equipped.

"'But what good is this war?' asked the Grand Lunar, sticking to his theme. "'Oh! as for good!' said I; 'it thins the population!'

[The Sleeper Awakes] Pills! What a wonderful time it is!