Jupiter Quotes

• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  Ovid

  Lovers, Perjury

  Ovid (1852). “The Heroides: Or Epistles of the Heroines, The Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works of Ovid”, p.403

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• In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Storm, Earth

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• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist, Thinking, Should Have

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• Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

  Sophocles

  Mad, Insanity, Firsts

  "Antigone". Johnson's ed., line 632, 1785.

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• Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

  Ovid

  Littles, Leisure, Little Things

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• Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

  Moliere

  Honor, Adultery, Dishonor

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• I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

  William Hooper

  Lying, Years, Two

  William Hooper (1859). “Fifty Years Since: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni of the University of North Carolina, on the 7th of June, 1859, (being the Day Before the Annual Commencement.)”, p.5

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• If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

  Ovid

  Men, Sin, Thunderbolts

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• Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]

  Gan De

  Morning, Years, Sky

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• I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Believe, Doe, I Believe

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.88, Macmillan

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• The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

  Lucan

  Air, Sea, Sky

  Lucan (1853). “The Pharsalia of Lucan”, p.362

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• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  Laura Dern

  Tickets, Plans, Wanted

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• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Kyoto, People

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Umpires, Issues

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 2, 1943.

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• Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Passion, Men, Feelings

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Path

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes. act 3, 1943.

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• If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

  Virgil

  Latin, Years, Ifs

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• Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.

  Michio Kaku

  Ocean, Moon, Ice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Moon, Men

  Johannes Kepler (1965). “Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger”

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• Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

  Ovid

  Christmas, God, Life And Love

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• Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."

  Gan De

  Stars, Science, Moon

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• I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Making Love, Firmament

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• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  Lactantius

  Son, Islands, Add

  Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.32

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