Tommaso Campanella Quotes on Knowledge
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Tommaso Campanella on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Tommaso Campanella:
“The City of the Sun is governed by the wise.”
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“To Jesus Christ", as cited in Roush, Sherry, 2011, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella , University of Chicago Press, p. 18.”
If You return to earth, come armed Lord, because enemies are preparing other crosses —not Turks, not Jews—but those of Your own kingdom -
“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 -
“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. -
“Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe , Cambridge University Press, p. 218.”
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.