Quotes by Giordano Bruno

“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.”

“The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.”

“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”

“With luck on your side, you can do without brains.”

“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.”

“We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.”

“Time takes all and gives all.”

“There is no law governing all things.”

It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry anothers favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

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

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, its only becasue it doesnt know that the fire can consume it.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

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.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.