"Men endured so much for war, but for……" — Olaf Stapledon
"Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing."
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13 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon has 13 quotes on this site.
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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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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
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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 Dared Quotes
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in…
— Jean Cocteau
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many…
— Maya Angelou
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
— Tacitus
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance…
— John Shelby Spong
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the…
— Aldous Huxley
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to…
— Rajneesh
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My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.
— Ian Woosnam
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
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