The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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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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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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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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