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.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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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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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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.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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.
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