Before a war military science seems a real science like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark astrology is dark and geometry is dark.
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.