Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the divine aspect of geometry as a universal truth reflecting God's mind, suggesting that human understanding of geometry connects us to the divine.
Johannes Kepler suggests that geometry is an eternal truth created by God, and that our ability to comprehend it signifies our likeness to the divine. This perspective intertwines mathematics and spirituality, claiming that the structured beauty of geometry reveals a higher order in the universe and reflects the nature of God in human understanding.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the intersection of science and spirituality.
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life.
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.
Eyesight should learn from reason.
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
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