ASTROLOGY QUOTES II
quotations about astrology
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
Sincerely, Andy Rooney
Yes, astrology is easy -- laughably easy -- to debunk using conventional methods and ideas. On the other hand -- and this is really the subtext of the entire social science debate ... convention is a poor guide to anything.
MARTIN COHEN
"Unthinkable: Are scientists wrong to dismiss astrology?", The Irish Times, December 1, 2015
Seeing our confusion, ancient sages like Parashara, Jaimini and Bhrigu bestowed the great intuitive science of astrology on humankind. In India astrology is called "the eye of the Veda" because with its help we're no longer blind to the forces of karma that drive our lives and determine the circumstances we live in, as well as shaping our attitudes and relationships. The sages themselves don't need astrology because they can see directly into the heart of reality. But astrology is like a prosthetic limb for the rest of us who're confined to far more limited states of awareness. It allows us to foresee the challenges and opportunities ahead as we pass (or fail) the curricula of the cosmic university.
LINDA JOHNSEN
A Thousand Suns
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
WILL ROGERS
The Autobiography of Will Rogers
Horoscope signs are a lot like personality tattoos on your brain based off what month you were born in, even though the only way your birthday will actually affect your personality is if it's on Christmas, making you bitter and resentful toward Jesus Christ for annually upstaging you.
LUKE STRICKLER
"Guys, Here's How To Finally Understand Astrology And Appease Your GF", Elite Daily, March 7, 2016
At the end of the day astrology is really just ridiculous. We're better off knowing if we're GZA or Method Man than Cancer or Taurus, anyway.
WILLIAM REIN
"Astrology is bulls**t, but we can still have fun", The Orion, March 8, 2016
Astrology is a disease, not a science.
MAIMONIDES
attributed, A Book of Jewish Concepts
Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
LEONID ANDREYEV
He Who Gets Slapped
Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.
SIEGFRIED FRED SINGER
The Universe and Its Origins
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Astrology is one of the great languages of our individual psyche's pulsing relationship to the collective Dream.
CAROLINE CASEY
"The Visionary Activist Show", KPFA, March 17, 2016
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
King Lear
Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfill it according to the law of light.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
The Complete Astrological Writings
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.
PHILIP C. PLAIT
Bad Astronomy
A belief in the powers of certain delusive arts, particularly astrology, has greatly retarded the progress of knowledge, by engrossing the attention of many of the finest geniuses the world has ever produced.
OLINTHUS GREGORY
attributed, Day's Collacon
So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.
HEINRICH CORNELIUS AGRIPPA
The Vanity of Arts and Sciences
Astrology isn't fortune-telling, nor do astrologers speak of life being fated. As agents of free will, we always have a choice. We need to drive our lives in the direction we choose or else risk having life's events control us. We usually have more choices than we think we do; our horoscopes can easily suggest possibilities that may have been overlooked.
SUSAN MILLER
Planets and Possibilities
I personally think astrology is fun, and also completely useless, an opinion supported by numerous studies and social experiments. And yet -- not that I'm a psychic or anything -- I'm pretty sure astrology isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
KALI HOLLOWAY
"Astrology Is Bunk -- But Here Are 6 Ways Your Date of Birth Can Affect Who You Are", Alternet, July 27, 2015
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
QUENTIN CRISP
Theater Voices: Conversations on the Stage
I admit it: as a sane and rational human being, I continue to be baffled as to why astrology works.... But I wouldn't be doing this for a living if astrology didn't keep working, consistently, over and over again. Frankly, I'd much rather be a plumber. Being a plumber pays well and only involves getting up to your ankles in sewage, not in people's love lives. Believe me, sewage is a lot easier to deal with.
MATTHEW CURRIE
"5 Reasons Men Should Learn Astrology", beliefnet, February 29, 2016