Divine Proportion Quotes

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

God ever geometrizes.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

There is nothing in the world more perfect than a slide rule. Its burnished aluminum feels cool against your lips, and if you hold it level to the light you can see God's most perfect right angle in each of its corners.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

I think the universe works perfectly.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.