Olaf Stapledon on Friendship
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Olaf Stapledon, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Olaf Stapledon, entry #241722: "Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat."
Attributed to Olaf Stapledon, entry #40112: "At first it had been youth's ideal of what youth should be, a pattern woven of fanatical loyalty, irresponsible gaiety, comradeship, physical gusto, and not a little pure devilry."
4 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon on Friendship
"Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat."
"At first it had been youth's ideal of what youth should be, a pattern woven of fanatical loyalty, irresponsible gaiety, comradeship, physical gusto, and not a little pure devilry."
"To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident with the punctual cosmos, themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other."
"There was, indeed, a time when China had mentally less in common with India than with the West, but fear of America had drawn the two great Eastern peoples together. They agreed at least in earnest hate of that strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad."