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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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Time takes all and gives all
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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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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