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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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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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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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