Top 60 Giordano Bruno Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

— Giordano Bruno

2. “I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.”

— Giordano Bruno

3. “I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.”

— Giordano Bruno

4. “God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.”

— Giordano Bruno

5. “If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.”

— Giordano Bruno

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6. “God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.”

— Giordano Bruno

7. “All things are in all.”

— Giordano Bruno

8. “I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!”

— Giordano Bruno

9. “Nature is none other than God in all things.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

12. “Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.”

— Giordano Bruno

13. “Time takes all and gives all.”

— Giordano Bruno

14. “There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.”

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15. “When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.”

— Giordano Bruno

16. “Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.”

— Giordano Bruno

17. “I who am in the night will move into the day.”

— Giordano Bruno

18. “The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

20. “The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.”

— Giordano Bruno

21. “There is one basic cause of all effects.”

— Giordano Bruno

22. “All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

24. “I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.”

— Giordano Bruno

25. “The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

28. “The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.”

— Giordano Bruno

29. “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.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

31. “Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.”

— Giordano Bruno

32. “In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns...”

— Giordano Bruno

33. “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.”

— Giordano Bruno

34. “There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.”

— Giordano Bruno

35. “I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.”

— Giordano Bruno

36. “Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die .”

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37. “Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.”

— Giordano Bruno

38. “Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.”

— Giordano Bruno

39. “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.”

— Giordano Bruno

40. “The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.”

— Giordano Bruno

41. “It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.”

— Giordano Bruno

42. “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.”

— Giordano Bruno

43. “The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.”

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Giordano Bruno

45. “The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.”

— Giordano Bruno

46. “I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.”

— Giordano Bruno

47. “I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.”

— Giordano Bruno

48. “Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men.”

— Giordano Bruno

49. “There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.”

— Giordano Bruno

50. “If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it’s only becasue it doesn’t know that the fire can consume it.”

— Giordano Bruno