The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
GIORDANO BRUNOAnything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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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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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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.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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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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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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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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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.
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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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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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