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

Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno
Died: 1600
Died: February 17
Astrologer
Astronomer
Dominican Friar
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
University Teacher
Writer
Filippo Bruno
Vanquished
Immensity
Bodily
Space
Eye
Ends
Never

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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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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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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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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.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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All things are in all.
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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 hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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 single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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