Johannes Kepler

I was almost laughed at because I worked so hard on a book that no one bought.

The human mind may devise many things, but it cannot create the harmony of the spheres.

Stars are the jewels of the night.

Truth is the daughter of time.

The universe is composed of two substances, the one ideal and the other material.

My soul hates this wretched dwelling place.

The proportion of the movements is as the cubes of the distances.

God is the archetype of all geometry.

In geometry we perceive qualities; in algebra, quantities. But there is no geometry without arithmetic.

The mind of man is a microcosm of the universe.

I have cleared the Augean stables of astronomy.

The Creator is geometrizing.

Planets are not bodies in motion, but moving bodies.

The wisdom of God is revealed in the harmony of the world.

I am a Lutheran astrologer.

The area swept by the radius vector is constant.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

To God, the future is as present as the past.

My joy is that of the mariner who sees the harbor after a long voyage.

The eye of the intellect sees the harmony of the spheres.