Giordano Bruno Quotes


What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?


Citations

Bruno, Giordano. The Heroic Frenzies. Translated by Paul Eugene Memmo, Jr., University of North Carolina Press, 1964, p. 113.

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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".