With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
GIORDANO BRUNOThus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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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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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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