Firmament Quotes - Page 5

• By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Venus, Scrutiny, Profundity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Stars, Names, Ideas

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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• Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

  Tom Shadyac

  Running, Stars, Love Is

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• Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

  Paracelsus

  Art, New Beginnings, Men

  Paracelsus (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.45, Princeton University Press

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