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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno
Died: 1600
Died: February 17
Astrologer
Astronomer
Dominican Friar
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
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University Teacher
Writer
Filippo Bruno
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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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.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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.
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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.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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.
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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.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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