51 quotes
Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself.
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.
De immenso (1591)
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)
If it is not true it is very well invented.
De gli heroici furori (1585)
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space]] is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
De immenso (1591)
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
Cabal of the Cheval Pegasus (1585)
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
To the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature.
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
He who wants Lent to seem short, should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter.
Candelaio (1582)
What he was, he became through having liberated himself from certain false axioms of the common and vulgar philosophy — I will not say blindness.
The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)
Chi vuole che la quaresima gli paia corta, si faccia debito per pagare a Pasqua.
If he is not Nature herself, he is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if he is not the soul herself.
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
It is not true, it is a happy invention.
Gli Eroici Furori. Attributed erroneously to Cardinal d'Este. Quoted in Pasquier Recherces (1600)
The Universe is one, infinite, immobile.
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
The one infinite is perfect, in simplicity, of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God, universal Nature, occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
De immenso (1591)
Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.
The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)