Best Giordano Bruno Quotes
- The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. Cadence
- 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… All
- 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… All
- The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) Orbit
- Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation… Both
- The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. Been
- We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a… All
- 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… Action
- I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! Anew
- If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked. All
- Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. Argument
- 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… All
- The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. Comprehension
- Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. Fear
- 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… Circling
- Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me. Desire
- Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. Father
- 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… Art
- 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. All
- Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul… Continuity
- 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… Apprehends
- The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in… Body
- 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… Act
- Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil. Benefit
- The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper… Actions