Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Aickman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Robert Aickman.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".

Everything to do with time is hideous.
The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — © Robert Aickman
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.
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