Olaf Stapledon Quotes

Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me we...

Many of the great economic masters, though they had originally favored radio-bliss in moderation as ...

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed,...

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, wh...

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed wit...

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on ev...

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, ...

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited po...

Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or ano...

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dra...

Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word...

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what...

But in spite of this material prosperity he was a slave. His work and his leisure consisted of fever...

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, a...

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughe...

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is ...

They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent b...

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which wa...

The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less sel...

The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and ...

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains ca...

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was b...

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of peopl...

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. N...

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like ...

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.