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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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From 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.
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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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I 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.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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The 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.
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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