Giordano Bruno Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Body

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• 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

  Perfect, Unity, Way

  "Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic". Book by Giordano Bruno edited by Richard J. Blackwell and‎ Robert de Lucca, 1584.

• 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

  Space, Suffering, Substance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

• 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

  Greatness, Excellence, World

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

  Giordano Bruno

  Science, Infinite, Limitless

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

• 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

  Stars, Science, Space

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Chance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

• There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

  Giordano Bruno

  Astronomy, Cosmology, Universe

• 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

  World, Earth, Infinite

• 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

  Soul, World, Way

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• 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

  Soul, Substance, Body

  Giordano Bruno, Robert de Lucca, Richard J. Blackwell (1998). “Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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