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.
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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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All things are in all.
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There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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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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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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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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 are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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