Quotes by : Olaf Stapledon

The older Puritans had trampled down all fleshly impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously....

Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or another....

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle....

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called....

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what....

There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far....

Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power,....

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly....

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous,....

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with....