What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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 BRUNOBeautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhen 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
GIORDANO BRUNOTime is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNOFor nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
GIORDANO BRUNOThose 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 BRUNOEverywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNOI who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
GIORDANO BRUNODivinity reveals herself in all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOMagicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
GIORDANO BRUNOWith luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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