Spheres Quotes

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  There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  Pythagoras

  Science, Guitar Strings, Humming

  Quoted in Aristotle Metaphysics.

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• The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Perfect, Doubt

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• An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
  That bides the spheres become articulate.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Radio, Electricity, Ideals

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• No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Issues, Moral, Authority

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Appreciate, Intellectual

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.35, Prestwick House Inc

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• The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Unity, Sound, Pumps

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2031, Delphi Classics

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• If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.

  Johannes Kepler

  Two, Space, Together

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Opposites, Circles, Two

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• This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

  Julius Evola

  Spiritual, Order, Political

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• Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Math, Garden

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• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

  Brigham Young

  Glasses, Sea, Sun

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• The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

  Steven Erikson

  Stars, Different, World

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• The world is sphere, has no East or West.

  Ai Weiwei

  East, World, West

  "No Fake: An Interview with Ai Weiwei". Interview with Alex Rauch, www.portlandart.net. August 09, 2010.

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• No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

  Daniel Fried

  Sphere Of Influence, Satisfied, Great Power

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Valuable

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.145

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• Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Years, House

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.202, Penguin

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• The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Reality, Way

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Girly, Children

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
  illusion.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Illusion, Alas, Transparent

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• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Perspective, Sides, Cylinders

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• Have you ever heard the earth breath?

  Kate Chopin

  Clever, Earth, Branches

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

  Tycho Brahe

  Imagination, Heaven, Appearance

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• An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

  Albert Einstein

  Circles, Twists, Curls

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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