Quotes from Giordano Bruno

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

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

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...

There is no top or bottom, no absolute positioning in space. There are only positions that are relative to the others. There is an incessant change in the relative positions throughout the universe and the observer is always at the centre.

It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

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.

Therefore the perfect, absolutely and in itself, is one, infinite, which cannot be greater or better, and that which nothing can be greater or better. This is one, everywhere, the only God, universal nature, of which nothing can be a perfect image or reflection, but the infinite.

Natura est deus in rebus

Its a poor mind that would think with the multitude, because it is multitude. Truth is not altered by the opinions of the vulgar, or by confirmations of the many

But your achievement for others may easily come to be inscribed in the book of eternity -- either that which is seen on earth or that other which is believed to be in heaven. For that which 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 virtue. Farewell.

To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!

Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men

Tanr?,iradesini hakim k?lmak için yeryüzündeki iyi insanlar? kullan?r;yeryüzündeki kötü insanlar ise kendi iradelerini hakim k?lmak için Tanr?'y? kullan?rlar.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

O ponto é o princípio ou a origem da linha, mas não sua causa; o instante é o princípio ou a origem da atividade [mas não a causa do ato]; o ponto de partida é o princípio do movimento, mas não a causa do movimento; as premissas são os princípios do argumento, mas não sua causa.

Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body's members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

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

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.