Divinity reveals herself in all things.
GIORDANO BRUNODivinity reveals herself in all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
GIORDANO BRUNOFrom this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
GIORDANO BRUNOThey dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere 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 BRUNOI understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is no law governing all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere 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.
GIORDANO BRUNONature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
GIORDANO BRUNOHe is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
GIORDANO BRUNOYou explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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