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.
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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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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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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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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The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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I 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.
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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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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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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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I 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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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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They 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.
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