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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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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
— Teresa of Avila
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All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will…
— Conrad Aiken
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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go…
— Jenny Holzer
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
— Plato
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They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things…
— Jeremy Brett
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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.…
— Saint Augustine
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The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief…
— Ariana Franklin
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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…
— Olaf Stapledon
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