"Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But……" — Olaf Stapledon
"Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience."
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13 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon
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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'…
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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…
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We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not…
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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…
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a…
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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the…
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention…
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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…
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and…
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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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…
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More Barren Quotes
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Unknown Author
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
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