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.
GIORDANO BRUNOAll 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIf the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
GIORDANO BRUNOSince I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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 BRUNOPerchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOFor nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
GIORDANO BRUNOWe 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
GIORDANO BRUNOIn 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.
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 BRUNOI need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
GIORDANO BRUNOBut 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
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