Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE.

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

— Henry Van Dyke, The Herald of Gospel Liberty, 12 August 1909.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 30 BCE

10 tracks