All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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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Time takes all and gives all
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There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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There is no law governing all things.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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 fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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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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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