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.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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I 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.
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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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From 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.
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