He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and…
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The Time Machine quotes
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About the book
A Victorian inventor tells his dinner guests that he has built a machine that can travel through time, and that he has used it to visit the far future. There he finds a gentle, childlike people living among the ruins of a great civilisation, and he slowly sets out to learn what became of humanity. This short novel helped create the time travel story and uses it to ask where society is heading.
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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 instinct are…
Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.