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The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

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The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts

Tommaso Campanella

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.

Tommaso Campanella

Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples.

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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

Tommaso Campanella

We begin to reason from sensible objects, and definition is the end and epilogue of science. It is not the beginning of our knowing, but only of our teaching.

Tommaso Campanella

Tommaso Campanella

Tommaso Campanella

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Born: September 5, 1568

Died: May 21, 1639 (aged 70)

Bio: Tommaso Campanella baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella was a Dominican friar, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

Known for:

The City of the Sun (1602)
Defense of Galileo
The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Città Del Sole: Dialogo Poetico)
Philosophia sensibus demonstrata
Apologia pro Galileo (1622)

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