List of Giordano Bruno Quotes

Perhaps Your Fear In Passing Judgement Is Greater Than Mine In Receiving It.

In This Infinite Space Is Placed Our Universe (whether By Chance, By Necessity, Or By Providence I Do Not Now Consider).

Perchance You Who Pronounce My Sentence Are In Greater Fear Than I Who Receive It.

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.

Of The Eternal Incorporeal Substance Nothing Is Changed, Is Formed Or Deformed, But There Always Remains Only That Thing Which Cannot Be A Subject Of Dissolution, Since It Is Not Possible That It Be A Subject Of Composition, And Therefore, Either Of Itself Or By Accident, It Cannot Be Said To Die.

There Is A Single General Space, A Single Vast Immensity Which We May Freely Call Void: In It Are Unnumerable Globes Like This On Which We Live And Grow, This Space We Declare To Be Infinite, Since Neither Reason, Convenience, Sense-perception Nor Nature Assign To It A Limit.

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.

All Things Are In All.

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.

My Son, I Do Not Say These Are Foals And Those Asses, These Little Monkeys And Those Great Baboons, As You Would Have Me Do. As I Told You From The First, I Regard Them As Earth's Heroes. But I Do Not Wish To Believe Them Without Cause, Nor To Accept Those Propositions Whose Antitheses (as You Must Have Understood If You Are Not Both Blind And Deaf) Are So Compellingly True.

Of The Eternal Corporeal Substance (which Is Not Producible Ex Nihilo, Nor Reducible Ad Nihilum, But Rarefiable, Condensable, Formable, Arrangeable, And "fashionable") The Composition Is Dissolved, The Complexion Is Changed, The Figure Is Modified, The Being Is Altered, The Fortune Is Varied, Only The Elements Remaining What They Are In Substance, That Same Principle Persevering Which Was Always The One Material Principle, Which Is The True Substance Of Things, Eternal, Ingenerable And Incorruptible.

I Pray You, Magnificent Sir, Do Not Trouble Yourself To Return To Us, But Await Our Coming To You.