Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNODivinity reveals herself in all things.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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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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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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I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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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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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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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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