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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).
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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 BrunoGiordano Bruno The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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 BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno All things are in all.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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