“We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.”

"The Corpus", from Anarchism Is Not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901–1991

Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter

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

“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] <br class="br">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.

“The universe has no circumference”

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

ibid.
Context: The universe has no circumference, for if it had a center and a circumference there would be some and some thing beyond the world, suppositions which are wholly lacking in truth. Since, therefore, it is impossible that the universe should be enclosed within a corporeal center and corporeal boundary, it is not within our power to understand the universe, whose center and circumference are God. And though the universe cannot be infinite, nevertheless it cannot be conceived as finite since there are no limits within which it could be confined.

“This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all.”

Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Context: This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. We are awake in the night. We turn the Wheel to bring the light. We call the sun from the womb of night. Blessed Be!