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.
GIORDANO BRUNOInnumerable 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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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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.
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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.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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All things are in all.
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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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