quotes about Astrology
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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 -
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.
-- Albert Einstein -
The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!
-- Alice O. Howell -
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
-- Andy Rooney -
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
-- Anne Lamott -
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.
-- Barbara GoldsmithSource : Barbara Goldsmith (2008). “Astrology Made Easy: A Handy Reference Guide”, p.1, Barbara Goldsmith
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Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
-- Carl Jung -
So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.
-- Carl Jung -
That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.
-- Carl Sagan -
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.
-- Carl Sagan -
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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.
-- Cat Stevens -
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me
-- Dan Savage -
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
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The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
-- David HilbertSource : "Comic Sections". Book by Desmond MacHale, 1993.
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Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.
-- Demetra GeorgeSource : Demetra George, Douglas Bloch (2003). “Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine”, p.18, Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
-- Dick Cavett -
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
-- Donald T. Regan -
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 -
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
-- Edward Abbey -
The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
-- Eleanor Catton -
Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.
-- Elizabeth Clare ProphetSource : Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press
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Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
-- Frank J. Tipler -
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 CumontSource : "Astrology and Religion".
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There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.
-- Gian-Carlo Rota -
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt -
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I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It’s that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.
-- Gus Van Sant -
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
-- Hannes AlfvenSource : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.
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You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.
-- Harry Hill -
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It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.
-- Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaSource : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
-- Hippocrates -
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
-- J. P. Morgan -
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Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.
-- J. P. Morgan -
Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
-- J. P. Morgan -
A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.
-- Jerry Falwell -
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 -
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God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
-- Johannes Kepler -
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
-- Johannes Kepler -
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.
-- Johannes Kepler -
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.
-- John Allen Paulos -
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
-- John JewelSource : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth GalbraithSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.
-- Jonah Peretti -
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
-- Jostein Gaarder -
The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.
-- Kedar Joshi -
They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.
-- Kedar Joshi -
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Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful
-- Kim Stanley RobinsonSource : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.314, Spectra
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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 -
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.
-- Leonard Roy Frank -
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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.
-- Leonard Susskind -
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
-- Letitia Elizabeth LandonSource : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (2003). “Poems from the Literary Gazette”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
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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 GoodmanSource : Linda Goodman (1968). “Sun signs”
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
-- Louis Pasteur -
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I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
-- Lynn CollinsSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
-- Marvin Minsky -
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
-- Mason Cooley -
Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.
-- Melanie Phillips -
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Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.
-- Michael Behe -
I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
-- Nancy Reagan -
Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.
-- Nancy Reagan -
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 -
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I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
-- Noel Coward -
I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman -
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
-- Peter De Vries -
The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.
-- Peter J. Carroll -
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I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.
-- Philip Greenspun -
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
-- Ptolemy -
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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 SmullyanSource : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan
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Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.
-- Richard Tarnas -
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 - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
-- Shana Alexander -
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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 Giri -
Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.
-- Stan Kelly-BootleSource : Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press
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The higher purpose of #‎ astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness
-- Stephen Arroyo -
We are here to learn lessons and our birth chart tells us what our lessons are, what type of energy we possess in the first place, and how, by facing up to the challenges presented to us in life, spiritual growth will ensue. The birth chart is a 'tool' to guide us through our life. By understanding our basic make up, we can learn to make the most out of our positive points and try to improve on our weaker ones.
-- Stephen Arroyo -
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The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology
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Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.
-- Steven ForrestSource : Steven Forrest (1984). “The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone”, p.5, Dubois Publishing
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Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
-- Steven Pinker -
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
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 -
I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.
-- Tom Neff -
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There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.
-- Varahamihira -
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
-- William H. Gass -
Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
-- William Shakespeare -
It was a long time ago. I was talking to a friend about astrology, and he mentioned the Seth books. I'd never heard of them, but I intuitively knew they were important to me. It sounds very romantic, but it really was like that. I took an interest in them right away for no reason.
-- Francis Dunnery -