Giordano Bruno Quotes


I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.


Citations

Bruno, Giordano. Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic. Translated by Robert de Lucca and Richard J. Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 99.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
  • Born: February 17, 1600
  • Died: February 17, 1600
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Philosopher

Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center".