I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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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 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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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