Quotes by Giordano Bruno

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

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

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

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.

“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.”

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

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