Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
GIORDANO BRUNOEverything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOMagicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOI beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNOAnything 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.
GIORDANO BRUNONature 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 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOFrom 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOMy 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,
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is infinite, so His universe must be too.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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