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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is infinite, so His universe must be too.
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOThey 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 fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNOWhy, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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 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 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 BRUNOEverywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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 BRUNODesire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
GIORDANO BRUNOWith luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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