Quotes by : Olaf Stapledon

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,”....

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling....

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

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

Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word....

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

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

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but....

They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by....

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people.....