Quotes from Giordano Bruno

Sólo sabe vincular aquél que penetra la razón de todo; o al menos la naturaleza, disposición, inclinación, actitud, utilidad y objetivo de aquella realidad particular que debe vincularse.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El tiempo todo lo da y todo lo quita; todo cambia pero nada perece" (Giordano Bruno)

Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.

There is no law governing all things.

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught.

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

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

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.