Giordano Bruno Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

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

I who am in the night will move into the day.

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.

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.

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

Time takes all and gives all

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.

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.

I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

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.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

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.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

There is no law governing all things.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

All things are in all.

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.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.