There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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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