Astronomy Quote by Ptolemy

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

— Ptolemy

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

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

— Ptolemy

“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

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

— Ptolemy

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

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

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

— Ptolemy

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

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

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

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