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 BRUNOIf the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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I 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.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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