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1548–1600 Italy
Giordano Bruno (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno; February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist, who, following an Inquisition for heresy and the denial of several Catholic doctrines, was burned at the stake in Rome. Bruno's case is considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.
Italy Academics Astrologers Astronomers Mathematicians Also known as: Bruno, Bruno, Giordano
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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There are countless suns and countless earths all rotating round their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system.
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That I shall sink in death, I know must be;
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Heroic love is the property of those superior natures who are called insane (insano) not because they do not know (no sanno), but because they over-know (soprasanno).
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Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up.
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"Fear not the lofty fall" I answer "rend
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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.
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Make it plain to us that the motions of all the worlds proceed from inner forces and teach us in the light of such attitudes to go forward with surer tread in the investigation and discovery of nature! Take comfort, the time will come when all men will see as I do.
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Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
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If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom. What can Juno give which thou canst not receive from Wisdom? What mayest thou admire in Venus which thou mayest not also contemplate in Wisdom? Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up.
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