I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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All things are in all.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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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