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 BRUNOWhereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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The 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.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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.
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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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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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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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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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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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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.
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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.
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