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H.G. Wells5 quotes
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. — H.G. Wells · 1897The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. — H.G. Wells · 1937The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H.G. Wells · 1899Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells · 1920He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry. — H.G. Wells · 1894