“From the center we should perceive the circle.”

— Joseph Joubert

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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter

Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 2

“When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

This is a paraphrase of lines in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.
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“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

For a discussion of this quotation, which is uncertain in origin but was quoted long before Voltaire, see the following: http://symbio.trick.ca/HomeSashaOnePageBible[2016-05-29]
Misattributed

“God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer

ibid.

“Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.”

John James Ingalls (1833–1900) American politician

Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Move like a beam of light;
Fly like lightning,
Strike like thunder,
Whirl in circles around
A stable center.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

The Art of Peace (1992)

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 22

“To find the directions and quarters of the winds your method of procedure should be as follows. In the middle of the city place a marble amussium, laying it true by the level, or else let the spot be made so true by means of rule and level that no amussium is necessary. In the very center of that spot set up a bronze gnomon or "shadow tracker." At about the fifth hour in the morning, take the end of the shadow cast by this gnomon, and mark it with a point. Then, opening your compasses to this point which marks the length of the gnomon's shadow, describe a circle from the center. In the afternoon watch the shadow of your gnomon as it lengthens, and when it once more touches the circumference of this circle and the shadow in the afternoon is equal in length to that of the morning, mark it with a point. From these two points describe with your compasses intersecting arcs and through their intersection and the centre let a line be drawn to the circumference of the circle to give us the quarters of south and north…. and thus we have designed a figure equally apportioned among the eight winds.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 5-7

“We learned dwarves are not meant to fly." came a voice from the edge of the circle.”

Rick Cook (1944) American writer

Wizardry Cursed

“From the center we should perceive the circle.”

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