“From all this we concluded that the first two divisions of theoretical philosophy should rather be called guesswork than knowledge, theology because of its completely invisible and ungraspable nature, physics because of the unstable and unclear nature of the matter;… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — 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 Image
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
