... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments befo….

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom..

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo ….

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the….

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in ch….

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm a….

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table..

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hund….

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 suspect….

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgme….

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I do….

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part….

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end..

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K….

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous ….

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the ….

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stu….

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set….

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good o….

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing bo….