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,
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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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 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.
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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Time takes all and gives all
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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 don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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