I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
-
-
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Time takes all and gives all
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
There is one basic cause of all effects.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
GIORDANO BRUNO