Quotes from Giordano Bruno

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

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

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

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.

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.