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 BRUNOBeautiful 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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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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All things are in all.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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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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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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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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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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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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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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