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.
GIORDANO BRUNOPerchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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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.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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