Blaise Pascal? Giordano Bruno? Hermes Trismegistos?

[Somnium]

"...the center of the universe is everywhere and its circumference nowhere."
- Giordano Bruno

"...an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
- Corpus Hermeticum

J.L. Borges made the referential find in connecting the Bruno quote with the section of text attributed to Hermes T., but an erudite friend of mine well-read and well-versed in all four of these authors mentioned the aphorism as a Pascalien utterance having its origin in the Hermetic text. Either way, whatever its authorship, it's a beautiful way of regarding love, self, otherness, and an overall equilibrium, that can be instilled into every moment.
Thoughts? Elucidations?

[metaxy99]

neat. i once investigated this phrase as part of an effort to support the idea of a pascalian valence to a cluster of passages in nietzsche's gay science.

there was a good article on this by robin small in a history of philosophy journal, but i doubt that it would be available outside of a university library.
you have located the most important sources for this idea, and your friend was right about pascal. add nietzsche (gs) and meister eckhart (sermon xlv).

of course, for just about everyone that 'center' is supposed to be god.
at any rate, most would say that modernity assaulted this beautiful conception

it is part of what makes this passage from denis johnson's poem 'incognito lounge' (not to mention the whole work) so damn good:

the center of the world is closed.
the beehive, the 8-ball, the yo-yo,
the granite and the lightning and the melody.
only the incognitio lounge is open.