Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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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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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,
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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 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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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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.
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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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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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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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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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