Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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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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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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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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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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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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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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