Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All things are in all.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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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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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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