Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOWith luck on your side, you can do without brains.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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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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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.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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