Franz Cumont quotes

“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”
-- Franz Cumont

Source : "Astrology and Religion".

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“True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.”
-- Franz Cumont

Source : Franz Cumont (2013). “Astrology and Religion”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”

Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK

“Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.”

“I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.”

“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”

“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”

“The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?”

“When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.”

“One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House