# Quote — Olaf Stapledon, Sirius

> [S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.

- Author: [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md)
- Book: [Sirius](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon#Sirius_(1944)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/sirius/s-o-far-as-music

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> Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.

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> I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit.

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> Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

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