If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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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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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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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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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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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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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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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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.
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