Olaf Stapledon on Humor
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Olaf Stapledon, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Olaf Stapledon, entry #78985: "Though all were devout, and blasphemy was regarded with horror, the general attitude to the deity was one of blasphemous commercialism."
Attributed to Olaf Stapledon, entry #141475: "Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets."
5 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon on Humor
"Though all were devout, and blasphemy was regarded with horror, the general attitude to the deity was one of blasphemous commercialism."
"Sunsets in pictures are so tiresome, but only boors and half-wits are not stirred by real sunsets."
"No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts."
"Still peering eastward from my hill, I saw the Pacific, strewn with islands; and then the Americas, where the descendants of Europe long ago mastered the descendants of Asia, through priority in the use of guns, and the arrogance that guns breed."
"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."