Giordano Bruno citáty
Giordano Bruno
Datum narození: 1548
Datum úmrtí: 17. únor 1600
Giordano Bruno, původně Filippo Bruno, též Nolan nebo Nolanus byl italský dominikán, filozof, spisovatel, astronom, zabýval se rovněž mnemotechnikou. Ovlivněn byl Mikulášem Kusánským a Bernardem Telesiem. V astronomii se proslavil tezemi o tom, že Země ani Slunce není středem vesmíru a že vesmír je nekonečný.
Citáty Giordano Bruno
„Věda slouží k poznání sebe sama a vlastní úlohy v prostoru a čase. Porozumíme-li zákonům, které řídí přírodu, pochopíme i to, co řídí nás, a naopak.“
Zdroj: Filosofický bulletin Nová Akropolis. 16. číslo. 15.12.2010.
„Příroda není nic jiného než Bůh ve věcech.“
Zdroj: [Zapletal, Miloš, Rok malých dobrodružství, 91, Euromedia Group, Praha, 2008, 978-80-242-2112-0]
„Ignorace a arogance jsou nerozlučné sestry.“
Varianta: Ignorance a arogance jsou nerozlučné sestry.
„Divinity reveals herself in all things… everything has Divinity latent within itself.“
As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
Kontext: Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
„Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.“
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
Kontext: Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles. We know that the Supreme Ruler cannot have a seat so narrow, so miserable a throne, so trivial, so scanty a court, so small and feeble a simulacrum that phantasm can bring to birth, a dream shatter, a delusion restore, a calamity diminish, a misdeed abolish and a thought renew it again, so that indeed with a puff of air it were brimful and with a single gulp it were emptied. On the contrary we recognize a noble image, a marvellous conception, a supreme figure, an exalted shadow, an infinite representation of the represented infinity, a spectacle worthy of the excellence and supremacy of Him who transcendeth understanding, comprehension or grasp. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of his kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
„Nature is none other than God in things…“
As quoted in Elements of Pantheism (2004) by Paul A. Harrison
Kontext: Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
