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 BRUNOThe stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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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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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.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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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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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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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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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.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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