Giordano Bruno quotes - page 3

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light. (Giordano Bruno)
We find that everything that makes up difference and number is pure accident, pure show, pure constitution. View quote
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If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. View quote
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If it is not true it is very well invented. View quote
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What he was, he became through having liberated himself from certain false axioms of the common and vulgar philosophy - I will not say blindness. View quote
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The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. View quote
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In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own. View quote
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Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nature is none other than God in things... View quote
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Our philosophy... reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single end, and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. (Giordano Bruno)
It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. View quote
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Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up. View quote
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That I shall sink in death, I know must be; But with that death of mine what life will die? View quote
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There are countless suns and countless earths all rotating round their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system. View quote
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The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. View quote
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Cause, Principle, and One eternal From whom being, life, and movement are suspended, And which extends itself in length, breadth, and depth, To whatever is in Heaven, on Earth, and Hell. View quote
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the centre of things. View quote
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If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom. View quote
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Blind error, avaricious time, adverse fortune, Deaf envy, vile madness, jealous iniquity, Crude heart, perverse spirit, insane audacity, Will not be sufficient to obscure the air for me, Will not place the veil before my eyes, Will never bring it about that I shall not Contemplate my beautiful Sun. View quote
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To the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature. (Giordano Bruno)
It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity... View quote
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Time takes all and gives all. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our philosophy... reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single end, and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. 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. View quote
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