I 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 BRUNOMaybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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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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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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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.
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The 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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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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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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My 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,
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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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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