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.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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There is no law governing all things.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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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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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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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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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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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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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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.
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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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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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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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