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.
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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
-
-
All things are in all.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
In 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 BRUNO -
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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 BRUNO -
It 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 BRUNO -
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
GIORDANO BRUNO