There 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 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
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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 await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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I 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.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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