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“I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Believe I Can Hands Father Heaven Stars Space Darkness Sun Sky Atheism Dog All Things Lonely Shining Positive Atheism Dust Fixed Hung Unbelief Lonely World

Author:Gerald Kersh

“I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .”

Knows Enough Stars Knowing Cry Clouds Fixed Stations

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”

Eye Stars Numbers Vision Ten Increase Familiar Great Things Fixed Visible Host Exposing

Author:Galileo Galilei

“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?”

World Way Ends Matter Moving Order Fall Stars Sun Planets Empty Arise Vain Fixed Hinder Dense Comets Orbs

Author:Isaac Newton

“Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.”

World Eye Stars Peace Goal Journey Absolutes Salvation Desert Fixed His Eyes Our World Traveller Unattainable Guiding Stars

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.”

Stars Justice Fixed North Star

Author:Confucius

“Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.”

Firsts May Light Fall Stars Effects Planets Thirds All Time Fixed Divided Duration Momentary Authorship Unchangeable

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.”

Men Needs Stars Realizing Fixed

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.”

People Mind Doe Body Happens Eye Together Heaven Stars Natural Views Objects Admire Fixed Exposed Immense Multitudes

Author:Saint Basil

“Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.”

Giving Light Stars Understanding Memories Sun Planets Moon Wander Fixed Firmament Meteors

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.”

May Littles Light Stars Sun Locals Esteem Reputation Former Fixed Each Day Latter Warmth Cheer Beam

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”

Ifs Sometimes Universe Stars Parent Understood Constant Fixed Spheres Sibling Celestial Dazzling Comets Scorching

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”

Humans Earth Stars Marriage Sun Planets Human Life Fixed Cosmos Clue Magnificence Nodding Wheeling

Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.”

May Stars Planets Fixed Meteors

Book:The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer

“Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.”

World Love Heart Dream Light Stars Space Brilliant Fixed Glorify Radiant Heart Love Afar

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.”

Character Light Names Stars Clear Shining Fixed Gentleman Contemplation Steady Firmament Twinkling

Book:The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

Source: The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.”

Whole Earth Moving Lying Heaven Stars Taken Middle Position Shapes Distance Size Astronomy Fixed Spheres Cosmology Ratios

Book:Ptolemy's Almagest

Source: Ptolemy's Almagest

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.”

Ifs Light Beautiful Stars Powerful Sun Wise Subjects Planets Intelligent Fixed Centre Dominion Comets Wise Counsel

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.”

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.”

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series