The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
GIORDANO BRUNOPerchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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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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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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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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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.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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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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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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