Flakes Quote by Olaf Stapledon

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic…

— Olaf Stapledon

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom…

— Olaf Stapledon

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the…

— Olaf Stapledon

“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the…

— Olaf Stapledon

Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a…

— Olaf Stapledon

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!

— Olaf Stapledon

I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God…

— Olaf Stapledon

“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to…

— Olaf Stapledon

[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will…

— Olaf Stapledon

“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that.…

— Olaf Stapledon

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what…

— Olaf Stapledon

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith…

— Olaf Stapledon