Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

Giordano Bruno

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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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majority truth people

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.

Giordano Bruno

space light dark

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.

Giordano Bruno

greatness excellence world

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

Giordano Bruno

doubting-everything assuming tradition

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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unity perfect way

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

Giordano Bruno

light divine men

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.

Giordano Bruno

atheism space body

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Giordano Bruno

stupidity law world

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.

Giordano Bruno

giving philosophy night

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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fountain substance spiritual

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

Giordano Bruno

body soul may

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

Giordano Bruno

coats buttons firsts

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

Giordano Bruno

mother time father

Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar

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earth way world

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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victory brave facts

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

Giordano Bruno

your-side luck brain

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.

Giordano Bruno

testimony clear virtue

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. 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 Bruno

catholic body soul

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.

Giordano Bruno

freedom change truth

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Giordano Bruno

absent pain stupid