{"id":118330,"date":"2023-11-28T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=118330"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:22:49","slug":"quotes-from-the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/quotes-from-the-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes From The Time Machine (+ Context &#038; Explanation)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <em>The Time Machine<\/em>, what aspect of humanity &#8220;had committed suicide&#8221;? Why did humanity grow weaker over time? What&#8217;s the significance of the two flowers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Time Machine<\/em> is a science fiction classic that tells the story of a Victorian scientist who builds a machine that can travel through time. In the distant future he finds that, rather than advancing, human civilization has collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading for a few quotes from <em>The Time Machine<\/em> that provide insights into the book&#8217;s profound ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-quotes-from-the-time-machine\">Quotes From <em>The Time Machine<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>H.G. Wells\u2019s classic story still captures people\u2019s imaginations well over 100 years after its publication. We&#8217;ve collected a few representative quotes from <em>The Time Machine<\/em> and provided them along with some context and explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Time Traveller goes to the distant future, where he finds that humanity has evolved into two separate species\u2014the childlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-time-machines-eloi\/\">Eloi<\/a> and the bestial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-time-machine-morlocks\/\">Morlocks<\/a>. Creativity is a distinctly human trait that neither the Eloi nor the Morlocks display. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-first-rate-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A First-Rate Madness<\/em><\/a>, psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi defines creativity as the ability to identify problems that others haven\u2019t noticed and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-first-rate-madness#2-mania-improves-innovative-thinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">come up with innovative solutions for those problems<\/a>. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/802701\/\">Eloi and the Morlocks<\/a> don\u2019t seem to innovate at all\u2014they just follow routines and become frightened or angry when something disrupts those routines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why couldn\u2019t these new species keep society and culture from falling apart (or, alternatively, why <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> they)? The loss of creativity would explain it. If humanity somehow lost the ability to be creative\u2014to identify new problems and devise solutions for them\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/beautiful-minds\/the-philosophy-of-creativity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all progress would stop<\/a>. Without creativity, <em>at best<\/em> we could only keep society as it currently is. In fact, that\u2019s exactly what the Morlocks do: They keep the ventilation system working and take care of the Eloi, but there are no signs of them trying to invent or discover new things.&nbsp;Furthermore, if new problems arose without people recognizing or solving them, civilization would eventually decay and collapse just as Wells describes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. Without them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Time Traveller meets a group of people called the Eloi. The Eloi are only about four feet tall and very slender, with little muscle. There are no signs of disease among the Eloi population, and none of them seem to have jobs.&nbsp;The Time Traveller senses that the Eloi aren\u2019t very smart, contrary to his assumption that people in the future would be advanced and intelligent. He hypothesizes that the lack of hardship over many generations has made them this way; without any challenges to overcome, the Eloi have no need for physical strength or intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAnd I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers\u2014shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle\u2014to witness that, even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After his first journey, the Time Traveller lands his machine on the same date he\u2019d started from, at about eight o\u2019clock in the evening. He hears the sounds of the dinner party happening just outside his laboratory, so he greets his guests, cleans himself up, and joins them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Time Traveller tells the dinner guests about his journey through time and adds that he doesn\u2019t expect them to believe him. So, as evidence of his travels, the Time Traveller places two strange white flowers\u2014a gift from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-time-machine-weena\/\">Weena<\/a> (an Eloi)\u2014on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The narrator is deeply upset by what he\u2019d heard about the end of humanity and, later, the end of the world. His only comfort is the two flowers from Weena, which he kept for himself after the Time Traveller left on his second journey. To the narrator, the flowers symbolize the fact that people will always have the capacity for love and gratitude, even after they\u2019ve lost everything else that makes them human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Time Machine, what aspect of humanity &#8220;had committed suicide&#8221;? Why did humanity grow weaker over time? What&#8217;s the significance of the two flowers? The Time Machine is a science fiction classic that tells the story of a Victorian scientist who builds a machine that can travel through time. In the distant future he finds that, rather than advancing, human civilization has collapsed. 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