Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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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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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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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 do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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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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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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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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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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The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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