It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there. Everyone was… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
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… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
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… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
