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Olaf Stapledon Quotes

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners Picture Quote #1
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration Picture Quote #1
A nation... is just a society for hating foreigners Picture Quote #1
In fact man’s career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids Picture Quote #1
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule Picture Quote #1
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there’ll still be time. Oh, God, what for? Picture Quote #1
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My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one Picture Quote #1
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience Picture Quote #1
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing Picture Quote #1
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other Picture Quote #1
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light Picture Quote #1
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself Picture Quote #1
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In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid Picture Quote #1
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you Picture Quote #1
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be Picture Quote #1
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe Picture Quote #1
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit Picture Quote #1
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things Picture Quote #1
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We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery Picture Quote #1
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster Picture Quote #1
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) A nation... is just a society for hating foreigners  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) In fact man’s career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there’ll still be time. Oh, God, what for?  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes) All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster  (Olaf Stapledon Quotes)