Giordano Bruno Quotes

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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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  Perfect, Unity, Way

  "Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic". Book by Giordano Bruno edited by Richard J. Blackwell and‎ Robert de Lucca, 1584.

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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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  Truth, People, Majority

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

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  Doubting Everything, Assuming, Tradition

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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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  Law, Stupidity, World

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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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  Buttons, Coats, Firsts

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• God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

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  Greatness, Excellence, World

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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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. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

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  Dark, Light, Space

  "Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe". Book by Martin J. Rees (p. 22), 2000.

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• I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

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  Brave, Victory, Facts

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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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  Men, Light, Divine

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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• Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

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  Mother, Time, Father

  "The Ash Wednesday Supper". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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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. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

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  Change, Truth, Freedom

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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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. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

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  Space, Atheism, Body

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ; One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands. Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.

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  Philosophy, Night, Giving

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• With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

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  Your Side, Luck, Brain

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• Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar
  to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.

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  World, Earth, Way

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• Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

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  Truth, Mean, Physicians

  Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. 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. 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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  Essence, Divinity, Lasts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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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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  Pain, Stupid, Absent

  Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

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  Space, Suffering, Substance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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.

  Giordano Bruno

  Knowledge, Science, Sentences

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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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  Nature, Crocuses, Narcissus

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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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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  Spiritual, Substance, Fountain

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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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  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher and Martyr". Book by Thomas Davidson, 1890.

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• Time takes all and gives all

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  Time, Philosophical, Giving

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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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  Virtue, Testimony, Clear

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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