Quotes by Giordano Bruno

“It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habi...”

“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 hav...”

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

“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the develop...”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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 contemp...”

“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 an...”

“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 m...”

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

“There is one basic cause of all effects.”

“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”

“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”

“Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.”