Girolamo Cardano Quotes on Knowledge
Girolamo Cardano was an Italian Renaissance polymath, physician, mathematician, astrologer, and natural philosopher whose life spanned brilliance and scandal. This page collects quotes attributed to Girolamo Cardano on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“Mathematics governs nature.”
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“Astrology is a discipline; philosophy is a way of life.”
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“There is in nature a subtlety that escapes our coarsest categories.”
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“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”
Gerolamo Cardano (around 1560). Liber de ludo aleae . -
“Gerolamo Cardano (around 1560). Liber de ludo aleae .”
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“Better it is to have the worst, than none at all. for example we see, that houses are nedefull, such as can not possese & stately pallaces of stone, do persuade themselves to dwell in houses of timber and clap, and wanting them, are contented to inhabite the simple cotage, yea rather than not to be housed at all refuse not the pore cabbon, and most beggerly cave. So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there livith no man, but that hathe cause to embrace it. for in these things better is it to have any than none at al.”
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“I am cold of heart, warm of brain, and given to never-ending meditation; I ponder over ideas, many and weighty, and even over things which can never come to pass.”
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“I have accustomed my features always to assume an expression quite contrary to my feelings; thus I am able to feign outwardly, yet within know nothing of dissumulation. This habit is easy if compared to the practice of hoping for nothing , which I have bent my efforts toward acquiring for fifteen successive years, and have at last succeeded.”
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“My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests—vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away .”
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