Astrology Quotes - Page 3

• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Fortune Cookie

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.250

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Heaven, Ego

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Looks, Economic, Favourite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Birth, Jovial

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren (1998). “Cymbeline”, p.236, Oxford University Press

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Good Day, Thinking

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• Astrology is a disease, not a science.

  Maimonides

  Disease

  Laws of Repentance (ca. 1175)

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• Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

  Anne Sexton

  Bed, Each Day, Planets

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

  Emm Gryner

  Astronomy

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• Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Ice, Perfect, Example

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• Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

  Martin Luther

  People, Office, Devil

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.343

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• I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Believe, Destiny, Eclipse

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• We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Government, Civilization

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

  John Milton

  Rubrics

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.80, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stars, Responsibility, Fate

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fun, Believe, Mean

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• My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Order, Evening

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

  Johannes Kepler

  Belief, Excitement, Human Nature

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• There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Looks, Reign

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

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• Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

  J. P. Morgan

  Millionaire, Billionaire

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• Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Good Luck, Tragedy

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  Hannes Alfven

  Believe, Land, People

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

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• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Providence, Left Alone

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

  Kedar Joshi

  May, Superstitions, Worst

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