Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
GIORDANO BRUNOMy 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,
GIORDANO BRUNOMagicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOWithout her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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 BRUNOThere is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNOWe 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOAll 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.
GIORDANO BRUNODesire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
GIORDANO BRUNOOf the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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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