Giordano Bruno on coincidence
Giordano Bruno86 quotes“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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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno All things are in all.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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 BrunoGiordano Bruno There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno 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.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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