Astrology quotes
179 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
"The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection."
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"I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel."
"The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present."
"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."
"Our jovial star reigned at his birth."
"Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
"Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time."
"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
"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."
"Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology."
"He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool."
"In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious"
"I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care."
"The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind."
"My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth."
"Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies."
"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."
"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."
"Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology."
"The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear"
"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."
