Tommaso Campanella citations

“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.”

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Tommaso Campanella

"Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 218.

“If You return to earth, come armed Lord,
because enemies are preparing other crosses
—not Turks, not Jews—but those of Your own kingdom”

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"To Jesus Christ", as cited in Roush, Sherry, 2011, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella, University of Chicago Press, p. 18.

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

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"Modo di filosofare".