There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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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All things are in all.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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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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There is no law governing all things.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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