101 Astrology Quotes

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

Steven Forrest

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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

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Donald Regan

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.

Johann Kepler

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

Claudius Ptolemy

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

The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.

T.H. Huxley

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Emerson

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

Mason Cooley

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

J.P. Morgan

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

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

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Louis Pasteur

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

Varaha Mihira

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

John Pierpont Morgan

All anyone can see in a birth chart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.

Isabel Hickey

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Noel Coward

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.

Isaac Asimov

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

Francis Bacon

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Hippocrates

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 Hilbert

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 Alfven

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Voltaire

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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 Jung

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 Tipler

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

Freddie Mercury

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Edward Abbey

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

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

Scott Adams

Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded...

Dennis Elwell

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

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

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.

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

D.H. Lawrence

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

John Milton

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

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Francis Bacon

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

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

William Shakespeare

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

There shall be signs in the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.

Jesus Christ

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

C.G. Jung

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

Thomas Aquinas

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology.

Robert Heinlein

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Louis Pasteur

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Carl Gustav Jung

Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.

Paul Carvel

Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common -- they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.

Bill Maher

Carl Gustav Jung

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, Jr.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're sceptical.

Arthur C Clarke

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

Richard Dawkins

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

Thomas Szasz

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

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