Quotes from Sirius — Olaf Stapledon
1886–1950 England
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I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit.
Sirius (1944)
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?
Sirius (1944)
Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat.
Sirius (1944)
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.
Sirius (1944)
Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.
Sirius (1944)
Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets.
Sirius (1944)