Astrology Quotes - Page 9

• Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Religious, Mean, Biblical

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• Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

  Thomas Thomson

  Magic, Superstitions, Chemistry

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• Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

  John Steakley

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Evil

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• There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Statistics, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Would Be

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• Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Light, Law

  Aleister Crowley, John Symonds (1974). “The Complete Astrological Writings”, p.120, Dubois Publishing

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• I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Superstitions, Nervous

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• The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology

  Stephen Arroyo

  Reality, Four Elements, Energy

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• Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

  Charley Pride

  Firsts, Duncan, Made

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• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Stars, Father

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sky, Strange, Wonder

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.242

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• Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Reason, Puzzled, Ifs

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

  Dante Alighieri

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• Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Judging, Personality, Psychology

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• Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Men, Vanity

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Destiny, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.11, 谷月社

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• I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

  Voltaire

  Etc, Astronomy, Ancient India

  "Sanskrit Reader 1: A Reader in Sanskrit Literature". Book by Heiko Kretschmer, 2015.

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• All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Events, Superstitions

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

  Maimonides

  Science, Tree, Shadow

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• When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Years, Different, Capricorns

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Lying, Men, Years

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• When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

  John Allen Paulos

  Believe

  John Allen Paulos (2011). “Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences”, p.74, Macmillan

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• If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Art, Taken

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• As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Roots, Political

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.229, University of Virginia Press

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• People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Believe, Opposites, People

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