Quotes by
Giordano Bruno |
1548-1600 , Italian monk & philosopher
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model.Starting in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600.
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Quotations
| • | Even if it is not true, it is well conceived Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato. 4 |
| • | Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. |
| • | The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. |
| • | Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. |
| • | With luck on your side, you can do without brains. |
| • | Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. |
| • | If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. |
| • | It is a poor mind that would think with the multitude, because it is multitude. Truth is not altered by the opinions of the vulgar, or by confirmations of the many. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. |
| • | If God is not Nature herself, He is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if He is not the soul itself. |
Latin Quotes
| • | Nature is God in all things. Natura est deus in rebus. 20 |