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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno
Died: 1600
Died: February 17
Astrologer
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Dominican Friar
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Filippo Bruno
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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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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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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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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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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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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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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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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