“When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”
Source: De Profundis (1897)
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On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)

“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.

Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIII, paragraph 2, lines 19-22

p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)