Giordano Bruno

“What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?”

“Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.”

“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.”

“Time takes all and gives all.”

“Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.”

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

“To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.”

“Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?”

“האדם לא לכבלים נולד. קשתה עליו נשיאת כבלים על גופו, שבעתיים קשתה עליו נשיאת כבלים על הרוח.”

“אם המזל עומד לצדך, אינך זקוק לשכל.”

“הזמן לוקח ונותן את הכול.”

“הזמן הוא אביה של האמת, והבינה היא אמהּ.”

“אין בנמצא חוק השולט בכל הדברים.”

“הזדהות עם דעת הרוב מצביעה על מוח ירוד ושפל; האמת איננה משתנה בשל דעה זו.”

“ייתכן כי אתם מפחדים לדון אותי למיתה על המוקד יותר מאשר אני מפחד מגזר דינכם זה.”

“Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.”

“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.”

“There is no law governing all things.”

“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.”

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