If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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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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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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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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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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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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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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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.
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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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