Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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There is no law governing all things.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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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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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Time takes all and gives all
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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