The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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.
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The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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