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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on
fortune cookies. ~Edward Abbey
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage
years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season
of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
~Carl Gustav Jung
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make
a hullabaloo down here? ~Mason Cooley
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence
upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the
firmament. ~Jeremy Taylor
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
~Arthur C. Clarke
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make
people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its
best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality. ~Steven Forrest
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays
are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. ~Sri
Yukteswar
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become
facts if he does not do something to alter them. ~Isabel Hickey
Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the
order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that
exists in the world. ~Karen Hamaker-Zondag
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is
well worth flirting with. ~D.H. Lawrence
The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the
looms; the will is the weaver. ~Author Unknown
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic
projection... ~Carl Jung
There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over
the sea of life. ~Varaha Mihira
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the
world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which
the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that
fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are
all too often limited by national horizons. ~Adlai Stevenson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are
underlings. ~William Shakespeare
I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.
~William Shakespeare
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my
failures are those that walk about the stage. ~Noel Coward
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of
kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. ~Roger
L'Estrange
No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~John Milton
There's some ill planet reigns:
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more favourable.
~William Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 2, Scene 1, spoken by
Hermione
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad
daughter of a wise mother. ~Voltaire
[D]reams, and predictions of astrology.... ought to serve but for
winter talk by the fireside. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Prophecies"
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy;
but after a war it seems more like astrology. ~Rebecca West
We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded
Which way please them.
~John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in
fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of
our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains
on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and
adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all
that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of
a star! ~William Shakespeare
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an
astrologer. ~John Pierpont Morgan
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a
lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology
becomes a tiny household cat. ~Sri Chinmoy
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky
speaks to you. ~Dane Rudhyar
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 about the bilge when a
group of astronomers denounces it. ~Isaac Asimov
Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain
some sort of message to be decoded... ~Dennis Elwell
I know that astrology isn't a science... Of course it isn't. It's
just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis.... The rules
just kind of got there. They don't make any kind of sense except in
terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all
sorts of processes start to happen and you start to find out all
sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be
about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes
for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking
about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to
emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary
they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite
dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are.
It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper
above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not
important. It's just the means of revealing their indentations. So
you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do
with people thinking about people. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The
sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins.
The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who
knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital
power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. ~D.H. Lawrence
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars.
But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star
or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting
movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forster
Astrology can clear up or mix up a person as much as any other
psychological, philosophical or religious mirror, a looking glass in
the endless mirror hall of life. ~Markku Siivola
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with
the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like
an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its
foot into that dirty puddle. ~Johannes Kepler
Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round
chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram - lecherous dog, he
begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull - he bumps us the first thing;
then Gemini, or the Twins - that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to
reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and
here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path - he
gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and
hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to
be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales - happiness
weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that,
Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us
in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round;
Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the
shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the
Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when
Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns
us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep. ~Herman
Melville
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still
shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard
today.... ~Linda Goodman
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted
death and hell. ~Christopher Marlowe
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don’t always hiss or muck
up the day, each day. ~Anne Sexton
The astrologer who spells the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her
bright eye interprets heaven's physiognomies. ~John Cleveland
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy
destiny. ~Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Astrologers that future fates foreshow. ~Alexander Pope
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable
for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and
wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry
about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with
rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung
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
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are
but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater
help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided
by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to
overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to
magnify the virtues in self. ~Edgar Cayce
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible
subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the
miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in
heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence
between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can
isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also,
one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... ~Carl Jung
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the
sublunar world. ~Thomas Aquinas
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and
philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? ~Walter Scott
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the
predictions. ~Benjamin Stillingfleet
Our jovial star reigned at his birth. ~William Shakespeare
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" -
find out how he feels about astrology. ~Robert A. Heinlein
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would
flourish... ~Robert G. Ingersoll
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear
arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. ~Louis
Pasteur
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the
Stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotations about Astrology