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Herbert George Wells war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Pionier der Science-Fiction-Literatur. Wells, der auch Historiker und Soziologe war, schrieb u. a. Bücher mit Millionenauflage wie Die Geschichte unserer Welt. Er hatte seine größten Erfolge mit den beiden Science-Fiction-Romanen Der Krieg der Welten und Die Zeitmaschine. Wells ist in Deutschland vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Bücher bekannt, hat aber auch zahlreiche realistische Romane verfasst, die im englischen Sprachraum nach wie vor populär sind. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. September 1866 – 13. August 1946  •  Andere Namen H.G. Wells, Герберт Уэллс
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„Zahllose Menschen […] werden die Neue Weltordnung hassen […] und bei dem Versuch sterben, gegen sie zu protestieren.“

Herbert George Wells

Original engl.: "Countless people, from maharajas to millionaires and from pukha sahibs to pretty ladies, will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by the frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it." - The New World Order (1940) p. 127 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=hzpR2uASeT8C&pg=PA127

„Was war eigentlich diese Zeitreiserei? Ein Mann konnte sich doch nicht mit Staub bedecken, indem er sich in einem Paradoxon herumwälzte, oder?“

Herbert George Wells buch Die Zeitmaschine

Die Zeitmaschine, dtv München, 8.Auflage Mai 2002, ISBN 3-423-12234-X, Seite 25 <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;What was this time travelling? A man couldn&#x27;t cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?&quot; - The Time Machine, ch. 2 fourmilab.ch http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/wells/timemach/html/timemach_chap2.html

„Moralische Entrüstung ist Eifersucht mit einem Heiligenschein.“

Herbert George Wells

Original engl.: &quot;Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.&quot; - The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), in: The works of H.G. Wells, Band 16, Scribner 1924, p. 288 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=oapbAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=halo

„Und wir wissen heute - wie wenig wir wissen. Niemals wurde eine Beobachtung gemacht, ohne daß hundert Beobachtungen außer acht gelassen wurden. Nie wird etwas beurteilt, ohne daß uns eine boshafte Wahrheit verspottet und uns durch einen Irrtum wieder verlorenginge.“

Herbert George Wells

Menschen, Göttern gleich
Original engl.: "And we know to-day--how little we know. There is never an observation made but a hundred observations are missed in the making of it; there is never a measurement but some impish truth mocks us and gets away from us in the margin of error." - Men Like Gods (1923), III 3. The Service of the Earthling http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200221.txt

„Mir geht es gut.“

Herbert George Wells

Letzte Worte, 13. August 1946
Letzte Worte

Herbert George Wells: Zitate auf Englisch

“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Island of Doctor Moreau

Quelle: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 16: How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood

“The Boss: You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!”

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H. G. Wells

When The Sleeper Wakes (1899)

“How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.”

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H. G. Wells The Star

"The Star", final line, first published in The Graphic, Christmas issue (1897)

“Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe… unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, 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 amidst the stars.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Outline of History

Quelle: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41

“Our true nationality is mankind.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Outline of History

Quelle: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41

“For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.”

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H. G. Wells buch A Modern Utopia

Quelle: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 1

“The Boss: The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“Whatever America has to show in heroic living to-day, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making to-day to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Future in America: A Search After Realities

The Future in America (1906)

“Practically I thought I had impunity to do whatever I chose, everything—save to give away my secret. So I thought. Whatever I did, whatever the consequences might be, was nothing to me. I had merely to fling aside my garments and vanish. No person could hold me. I could take my money where I found it.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Invisible Man

Quelle: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 23: In Drury Lane

“Oswald Cabal: Little animals. And if we’re no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live, and suffer, and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. It is this, or that. All the universe or nothing. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?”

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H. G. Wells buch The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.”

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H. G. Wells buch The War in the Air

The War in the Air (1908)

“Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Island of Doctor Moreau

Quelle: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains

“The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.”

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H. G. Wells buch The World Set Free

The World Set Free

“Rowena: You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“Suppose, now, there is such a thing as an all-round inferior race. Is that any reason why we should propose to preserve it for ever…? Whether there is a race so inferior I do not know, but certainly there is no race so superior as to be trusted with human charges. The true answer to Aristotle’s plea for slavery, that there are “natural slaves,” lies in the fact that there are no “natural” masters… The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. There is only one sane and logical thing to be done with a really inferior race, and that is to exterminate it. Now there are various ways of exterminating a race, and most of them are cruel. You may end it with fire and sword after the old Hebrew fashion; you may enslave it and work it to death, as the Spaniards did the Caribs; you may set it boundaries and then poison it slowly with deleterious commodities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accustomed and to live under new and strange conditions that will expose it to infectious diseases to which you yourselves are immune, as the missionaries do the Polynesians; you may resort to honest simple murder, as we English did with the Tasmanians; or you can maintain such conditions as conduce to “race suicide,” as the British administration does in Fiji. Suppose, then, for a moment, that there is an all-round inferior race… If any of the race did, after all, prove to be fit to survive, they would survive—they would be picked out with a sure and automatic justice from the over-ready condemnation of all their kind. Is there, however, an all-round inferior race in the world? Even the Australian black-fellow is, perhaps, not quite so entirely eligible for extinction as a good, wholesome, horse-racing, sheep-farming Australian white may think. These queer little races, the black-fellows, the Pigmies, the Bushmen, may have their little gifts, a greater keenness, a greater fineness of this sense or that, a quaintness of the imagination or what not, that may serve as their little unique addition to the totality of our Utopian civilisation. We are supposing that every individual alive on earth is alive in Utopia, and so all the surviving “black-fellows” are there. Every one of them in Utopia has had what none have had on earth, a fair education and fair treatment, justice, and opportunity…Some may be even prosperous and admired, may have married women of their own or some other race, and so may be transmitting that distinctive thin thread of excellence, to take its due place in the great synthesis of the future.”

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H. G. Wells buch A Modern Utopia

Quelle: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 3

“I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Invisible Man

Quelle: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 20: At the House In Great Portland Street

“If I am something of a social leveller, it is not because I want to give silly people a good time, but because I want to make opportunity universal, and not leave out one single being who is worth while.”

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H. G. Wells

"What I Believe", The Listener, 1929. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman, I Believe, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1940.

“And the ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity—beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge—and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men. To do the latter is to do the former; the two things are inseparable. And the method that nature has followed hitherto in the shaping of the world, whereby weakness was prevented from propagating weakness, and cowardice and feebleness were saved from the accomplishment of their desires, the method that has only one alternative, the method that must in some cases still be called in to the help of man, is death. In the new vision death is no inexplicable horror, no pointless terminal terror to the miseries of life, it is the end of all the pain of life, the end of the bitterness of failure, the merciful obliteration of weak and silly and pointless things.”

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H. G. Wells buch Anticipations

Anticipations (1902)

“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive "policies" and "Plans" of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word "socialism", but what else can one call it?”

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H. G. Wells buch The New World Order

The New World Order (1939)

“Every man shall be entitled to a sound and objective education and there shall be genuine equality of opportunity. Education shall be a matter of environment as well as of instruction, and everyone shall be entitled to an education untouched by the interests of any party or religion.”

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H. G. Wells

The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

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H. G. Wells

The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)

“The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.”

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H. G. Wells buch Bealby

Bealby: A Holiday (1915)

“My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Invisible Man

Quelle: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 21: In Oxford Street

“The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Outline of History

Quelle: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40

“He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.”

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H. G. Wells buch The Island of Doctor Moreau

Quelle: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk

“An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.”

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H. G. Wells

The Temptaion of Harringay (1929)

“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.”

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H. G. Wells buch The War of the Worlds

Book I, Ch. 7: How I Reached Home
The War of the Worlds (1898)

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.”

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H. G. Wells

The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19

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