# Quote — Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

> Yes, we had one and all left our native planets in order to discover whether, regarding the cosmos as a whole, the spirit which we all in our hearts obscurely knew and haltingly prized, the spirit which on Earth we sometimes call humane, was Lord of the Universe, or outlaw; almighty, or crucified. And now it was becoming clear to us that if the cosmos had any lord at all, he was not that spirit but some other, whose purpose in creating the endless fountain of worlds was not fatherly toward the beings that he had made, but alien, inhuman, dark.

- Author: [Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md)
- Book: [Star Maker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker.md)
- Page: 71
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon#Star_Maker_(1937)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/yes-we-had

## More from this book

> Thus, little by little, it came about, as so often before, that the Star Maker outgrew his creature. Increasingly he frowned upon the loveliness that he still cherished. Then, seemingly with a conflict of reverence and impatience, he set our cosmos in its place among his other works.

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/thus-little-by-little.md)

> It seemed that he gazed down on me from the height of his divinity with the aloof though passionate attention of an artist judging his finished work; calmly rejoicing in his achievement, but recognizing at last the irrevocable flaws in his initial conception, and already lusting for fresh creation.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/it-seemed-that.md)

> As I contemplated the host of deities that rose to me like a smoke cloud from the many worlds, a new image, a new symbol of the infinite spirit, took shape in my mind. Though born of my own cosmical imagination, it was begotten by a greater than I.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/as-i-contemplated.md)