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Quotes from Darkness and the light — Olaf Stapledon

1886–1950 England

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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.

Darkness and the light (1941)

On the one side was the sluggish reptilian will for ease and sleep and death, rising sometimes to active hate and destructiveness; on the other side the still blindfold and blundering will for the lucid and coherent spirit.

Darkness and the light (1941)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Olaf Stapledon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.