There is one basic cause of all effects.
GIORDANO BRUNOIn this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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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 universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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