Giordano Bruno on coincidence
Giordano Bruno86 quotes“From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.”
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno I who am in the night will move into the day.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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