“And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — 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
“This microcosm was pregnant with the germ of a proper time and space, and all the kinds of cosmical beings. Within this… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“In every one of these "chrysalis" worlds thousands of millions of persons were flashing into existence, one after the other, to drift… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music! — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him…” quote by Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/233/olaf-stapledon-9950_bounds_t-he-individual-in-whom-the-will-for-the_1395515.jpg)
![“[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 for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not…” quote by Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de9/olaf-stapledon-9950_all-time_s-ervants-of-darkness-had-no-lasting-joy_509336.jpg)
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