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 earth I stand; I touch the …

- 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, my feet no longer touch the earth,…

- Ptolemy

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my fee…

- Ptolemy

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

- 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 in a…

- Ptolemy

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

- Ptolemy

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

- 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 within th…

- 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, if the earth were flat …

- Ptolemy