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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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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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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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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.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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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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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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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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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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