Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
GIORDANO BRUNOSince I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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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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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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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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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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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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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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