The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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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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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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.
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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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