Olaf Stapledon Quote

The Seventh Men were completely without interest in the universal and the unseen. The beauty which they sought to create was ephemeral and very largely sensuous. And they were well content that it should be so. Personal immortality, said a dying sage, would be as tedious as an endless song.

Chapter XIII: Humanity on Venus; Section 2, The Flying Men (p. 199) - Last and First Men (1930)