Tommaso Campanella Quotes
Tommaso Campanella was an Italian Dominican philosopher, theologian, and astrologer who spent twenty-seven years in Spanish prisons after participating in a millenarian conspiracy in Calabria. During his captivity he composed an extraordinary body of philosophical and political writings, including The City of the Sun, a utopian dialogue describing a society organized by reason and natural religion. The quotes below are attributed to Tommaso Campanella, organized by topic.
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Tommaso Campanella on God
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“Religion is the natural foundation of all society.”
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“I learn more from the anatomy of an ant or a blade of grass...than from all the books which have been written since the beginning of time. This is so, since I have begun...to read the book of God...the model according to which I correct the human books which have been copied badly and arbitrarily and without attention to the things that are written in the original book of the Universe.”
Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe , Cambridge University Press, p. 218.
Tommaso Campanella on Happiness
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“Common life is the source of true happiness.”
Tommaso Campanella on Knowledge
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“The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts”
Modo di filosofare". -
“Modo di filosofare".”
The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts
Tommaso Campanella on Nature
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“The whole universe is animated by sense and love.”
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“If You return to earth, come armed Lord, because enemies are preparing other crosses —not Turks, not Jews—but those of Your own kingdom”
To Jesus Christ", as cited in Roush, Sherry, 2011, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella , University of Chicago Press, p. 18.
Tommaso Campanella on Politics
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“The City of the Sun is governed by the wise.”
Tommaso Campanella on Virtue
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“He who learns to suffer ceases to suffer.”