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Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery."

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners."

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.




Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "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 for?"

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 for?



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light."

The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.




Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you."

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "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 beasts."

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 beasts.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience."

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.




Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be."

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "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 by rapids."

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 by rapids.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself."

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad."

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing."

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.




Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "In a sick world even the hale are sick."

In a sick world even the hale are sick.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago."

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one."

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration."

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!"

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



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule."

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad."

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive."

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts."

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



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both."

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God."

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them."

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.



Olaf Stapledon Quotes: "But why, " he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it."

But why, " he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.