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.
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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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 stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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