Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
GIORDANO BRUNOWithout her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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They 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.
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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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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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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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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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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Nature 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.
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What 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.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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