Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. Olive Schreiner More Quotes by Olive Schreiner More Quotes From Olive Schreiner We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. Olive Schreiner equality ties sleep It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. Olive Schreiner noble war peace No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not. Olive Schreiner cost doe men The surest sign of fitness is success. Olive Schreiner We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. Olive Schreiner feelings world thinking Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. Olive Schreiner slavery humanity gone Soul, what have I to do with you? Olive Schreiner soul How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. Olive Schreiner paper writing looks One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter. Olive Schreiner bitter form people The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse. Olive Schreiner curse jew way Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. Olive Schreiner soul should-have men It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly. Olive Schreiner ice cutting men Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. Olive Schreiner phantoms dream men the brain works better if the hand works too. Olive Schreiner brain hands thinking Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God. Olive Schreiner love two father A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea. Olive Schreiner children looks ideas From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality? Olive Schreiner My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. Olive Schreiner
