The Time Ships

... никакое знание по сути не является совершенным или фиксированным. Истина живёт лишь некоторое время, пока не устаревает и не отбрасывается, или видоизменяется. Море Информации нестабильно. Гипотезы и понятия, встающие из него, многогранны и постоянно обращаются к нам разными гранями.

Старость стремится к очагу, молодость к приключениям.

...we all, without exception, use the mirror to deceive ourselves. The reflection we see there is so much under our control: we favor our best features, if unconsciously, and adjust our mannerisms into a pattern which our closest friend would not recognize. And, of course, we are under no compulsion to consider ourselves from less favorable angles: such as from the back of the head, or with our prominent nose in full, glorious profile.

Some men of my time have argued for war — would have welcomed it, I think, as, for example, a release of the tension between the great Powers. Men thought of war — always the next one — as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fought wars because of the legacy of the brute inside them, and any justification was a mere rationalization supplied by our oversized brains.