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# Olaf Stapledon

(1886–1950)   Paramedic   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Olaf Stapledon was a paramedic from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for *Star Maker*.

## Quick Facts About Olaf Stapledon

Born May 10, 1886

Died September 6, 1950

Nationality United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Profession Paramedic

Notable works Star Maker

Known for Last and First Men, Star Maker, Odd John

## About Olaf Stapledon

William Olaf Stapledon was an English philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

## Awards & Honors

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

##  Quotes by Olaf Stapledon

> [In a sick world even the hale are sick.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-a-sick-world-even-the-hale-are-sick/)

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[Doctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doctor/)

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> [“Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/why-did-you-make-only-one-of-me-it-s-going-to-be-lonely-being-me/)

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[Loneliness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/loneliness/)

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> [Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/our-outworn-economic-system-dooms-millions-to-frustration/)

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[Doom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doom/)

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> [A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/a-nation-is-just-a-society-for-hating-foreigners/)

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[Foreigners](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foreigners/)

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> [Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/without-satan-with-god-only-how-poor-a-universe-how-trite-a-music/)

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[Music](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music/)

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> [Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/barren-barren-and-trivial-are-these-words-but-not-barren-the/)

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[Barren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barren/)

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> [Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/men-endured-so-much-for-war-but-for-peace-they-dared-nothing/)

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[Endured](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endured/)

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> [In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-you-humanity-is-precarious-and-so-in-dread-and-in-shame-you-kill/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/so-might-we-ourselves-look-down-into-some-rock-pool-where-lowly/)

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[Ancestor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancestor/)

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> [The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-expansion-of-the-whole-cosmos-was-but-the-shrinkage-of-all-its/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/that-strange-blend-of-the-commercial-traveller-the-missionary-and-the/)

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[Barbarians](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barbarians/)

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> [It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/it-is-better-to-be-destroyed-than-to-triumph-in-slaying-the-spirit-we/)

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[Achievement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achievement/)

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> [Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/even-when-all-the-worlds-have-frozen-or-exploded-and-all-the-suns/)

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[Cold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cold/)

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> [The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-universe-now-appeared-to-me-as-a-void-wherein-floated-rare-flakes/)

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[Flakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flakes/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/my-dear-it-is-a-great-strength-to-have-faced-the-worst-and-to-have/)

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> [“The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-future-needed-service-not-pity-not-piety-but-in-the-past-lay/)

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[Human condition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-condition/)

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> [“Had God,then,peopled the whole universe with our kind?Did he perhaps in very truth make us in his image?It was incredible.To ask such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/had-god-then-peopled-the-whole-universe-with-our-kind-did-he-perhaps/)

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[God Peopled](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-peopled-1671262/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/we-have-no-government-and-no-laws-if-by-law-is-meant-a-stereotyped/)

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[Aids](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aids/)

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> [“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/with-characteristic-lack-of-false-modesty-john-once-said-to-me-my/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/i-loathe-the-urchin-s-cruelty-to-the-cat-but-i-will-not-loathe-the/)

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[Cat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cat/)

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> [Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/philosophy-is-an-amazing-tissue-of-really-fine-thinking-and/)

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[Bloody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bloody/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-man-social-intercourse-has-centred-mainly-on-the-process-of/)

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[Absorbing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absorbing/)

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> [The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-one-reasonable-goal-of-social-life-was-affirmed-to-be-the/)

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[Awakened](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awakened/)

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> [Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/sooner-or-later-for-good-or-ill-a-united-mankind-equipped-with/)

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[Attention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attention/)

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> [I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/i-see-indeed-i-know-that-in-some-sense-god-is-love-and-god-is-wisdom/)

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[Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/)

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> [“This microcosm was pregnant with the germ of a proper time and space, and all the kinds of cosmical beings. Within this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/this-microcosm-was-pregnant-with-the-germ-of-a-proper-time-and-space/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/it-seemed-to-me-that-i-now-saw-the-star-maker-in-two-aspects-as-the/)

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[Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/)

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> [The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-cosmos-exploded-actualizing-its-potentiality-of-space-and-time/)

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[Aspect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aspect/)

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> [All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/all-this-long-human-story-most-passionate-and-tragic-in-the-living/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [ \[S\]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/s-ervants-of-darkness-had-no-lasting-joy-in-their-service-in-all-of/)

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[All time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/all-time/)

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> [“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there. Everyone was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-this-passionately-social-world-loneliness-dogged-the-spirit-people-2/)

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[Comradeship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comradeship/)

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> [“The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings. But in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-older-puritans-had-trampled-down-all-fleshly-impulses-these-newer/)

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[Far apart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/far-apart/)

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> [“Many of the great economic masters, though they had originally favored radio-bliss in moderation as an opiate for the discontented workers, now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/many-of-the-great-economic-masters-though-they-had-originally-favored/)

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[Fascism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fascism/)

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> [“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/conceive-a-world-society-developed-materially-far-beyond-the-wildest/)

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[Civilization](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civilization/)

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> [“It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/it-was-strange-to-us-that-none-of-these-three-victims-made-any/)

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[Pacifism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pacifism/)

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> [“In every one of these "chrysalis" worlds thousands of millions of persons were flashing into existence, one after the other, to drift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-every-one-of-these-chrysalis-worlds-thousands-of-millions-of/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [“Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/is-the-beauty-of-the-whole-really-enhanced-by-our-agony-and-is-the/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [“In temperament the Second Men were curiously different from the earlier species. The same factors were present, but in different proportions, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-temperament-the-second-men-were-curiously-different-from-the/)

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[Fighting spirit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fighting-spirit/)

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> [“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/sitting-there-on-the-heather-on-our-planetary-grain-i-shrank-from-the/)

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[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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> [In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-fact-man-s-career-has-been-less-like-a-mountain-torrent-hurtling/)

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## Olaf Stapledon by topic

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                        "text": "“Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres, and has seemed to himself once and again to catch some phrase of it, or even a hint of the whole form of it. Yet he can never be sure that he has truly heard it, nor even that there is any such perfect music at all to be heard. Inevitably so, for if it exists, it is not for him in his littleness. But one thing is certain. Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man.”",
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