Giordano Bruno Quotes


We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.


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. 95.

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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".