Franz Cumont Quotes

“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”

“Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon”

“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”

“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”

“I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.”

“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”

“Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly and yet still returning through the infinite extent of China.”

“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”