Girolamo Cardano Quotes on Life
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 life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“Time is the most precious of all things.”
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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:
“I have known but a single sorrow, and that has consumed me.”
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“And wel we see ther is none alive that in every respect may be accompted happie, yea though mortall men were free from all calamities, yet the torments & feare of death should stil attend them But b:sides them, behold, what, and how manye evilles there bee, that unlesse the cloude of error bee removed, impossible it is to see the truth, or receive allay of our earthly woes.”
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“So shall we voyd of all craft and sail, with true reason declare how much each man erreth in life, judgement, opinion, and will. Some things there are that so wel do prove themselves, as besides nature nede no profe at all.”
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