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 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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The 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.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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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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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.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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