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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Giordano Bruno

There is no law governing all things.
GIORDANO BRUNO

All Governing Law No Thing
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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Arrangeable Consider Corporeal Eternal Ex Formable Nihil Producible Rarefiable Substance
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Art Century Come Develop Know Many Science When
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Believe Fought Therefore Victory
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Call General Globe Immensity Live Single Space Vast Voidunumerable
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Around Circle Eath Numberless Sun
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNO

Absent Future More One Pain Present Stupid Thing
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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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Plant Thing
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
GIORDANO BRUNO

All Doth Fill God Simultaneously Single Soul Spirit Temple Thing Together Whole
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Accept Argument Denied End Explain Right Sophistic Understand Well
Divinity reveals herself in all things.
GIORDANO BRUNO

All Divinity Himself Reveal Thing
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Button Buttoned Coat Crooked First Rest Wrongly
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.
GIORDANO BRUNO

Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish

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