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Olaf Stapledon has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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