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 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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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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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Beautiful 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.
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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.
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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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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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