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.
GIORDANO BRUNOPerchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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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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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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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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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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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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