Quote by: Olaf Stapledon

The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.


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Author Bio


  • NameOlaf Stapledon
  • DescriptionBritish novelist and philosopher
  • BornMay 10, 1886
  • DiedSeptember 6, 1950
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionParamedic; Philosopher; Writer
  • WorksStar Maker; Last And First Men; Odd John