The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
GIORDANO BRUNOThey dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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 who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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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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