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Oh holy asinity! holy ignorance!
Holy foolishness and pious devotion!
You who alone do more to advance and make souls good
Than human ingenuity and study.

— Giordano Bruno Cabal of the Cheval Pegasus (1585)

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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)

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