"He should avail himself of their resources in……" — Olaf Stapledon
"He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit."
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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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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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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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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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Well begun is half done.
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