But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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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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