Tommaso Campanella quotes

Tommaso Campanella quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The world is a living image of God.”
-- Tommaso Campanella

#World Quotes #God Image Quotes
“The world is a den of crazies.”
-- Tommaso Campanella

#World Quotes #Dens Quotes

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”
“Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.”
“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.48, Beacon Press

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