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 BRUNOWhy, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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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.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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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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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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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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All things are in all.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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