Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is one basic cause of all effects.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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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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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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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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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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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.
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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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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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All things are in all.
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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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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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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.
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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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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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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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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