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Olaf Stapledon has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains…
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived…
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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of…
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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…
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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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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…
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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,…
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to…
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Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
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I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
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