I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities… — Ptolemy Copy Share
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. — Ptolemy Copy Share
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the… — Ptolemy Copy Share
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy Copy Share
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole;… — Ptolemy Copy Share
Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved… — Ptolemy Copy Share
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also,… — Ptolemy Copy Share
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of… — Ptolemy Copy Share
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on… — Ptolemy Copy Share
I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece… — Ptolemy Copy Share
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars,… — Ptolemy Copy Share
“From all this we concluded that the first two divisions of theoretical philosophy should rather be called guesswork than knowledge, theology because of its… — Ptolemy Copy Share
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by… — Ptolemy Copy Share
