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. Giordano Bruno More Quotes by Giordano Bruno More Quotes From Giordano Bruno I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see. Giordano Bruno sentences science knowledge Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever. Giordano Bruno support liberty depth 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. Giordano Bruno substance space suffering I who am in the night will move into the day. Giordano Bruno night moving Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect. Giordano Bruno glowing wise men The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude. Giordano Bruno diversity opposites order Time takes all and gives all Giordano Bruno philosophical time giving I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth. Giordano Bruno stars earth heaven They 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. Giordano Bruno victory opinion order Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, Giordano Bruno sky clouds wind I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won. Giordano Bruno science believe art It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. Giordano Bruno judgment fear may Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth. Giordano Bruno physicians truth mean The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. Giordano Bruno gems understood philosophy 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. Giordano Bruno crocuses narcissus nature 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 circles mean moving 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. Giordano Bruno roosters animal thinking Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things. Giordano Bruno internals all-things When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. 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 powerful earth world Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , 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. Giordano Bruno compass foundation coincidence
