Giordano Bruno citáty

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„Príde deň, keď sa človek prebudí zo zabudnutia a konečne pochopí, kým je naozaj a komu prenechal opraty svojej existencie a kto ho drží v otroctve. Človek nemá medze a keď si to jedného dňa uvedomí, bude slobodný aj tu na tomto svete. Ignorantstvo a arogancia sú nerozlučné sestry.“

„Láska je ako cintorínsky kvietok, ani na hrobe nevädne.“

„Ak táto veda, ktorá prinesie človeku veľké výhody, nebude slúžiť človeku na to, aby pochopil samého seba, nakoniec sa obráti proti človeku.“

„Ak to nie je pravda, je to veľmi dobre vymyslené.“

„Ako všetky zákony prírody, aj pravda je stála a nemenná.“

„Láska je sklon k obeti.“

„Život je boj o právo na lásku, ktorej plodom je spokojnosť so sebou samým.“

„Človek je božský pretože je božská príroda ktorá ho vytvorila a ktorej je sám súčasťou, ale božským ho robí aj jeho zápal pre vedenie a vznešené činy.“

„Tvárou v tvár nekonečnému človek cíti, že je súčasťou večnej prírody.“

„Človek môže srdcom milovať, ale len rozumom byť šťastný.“

„Neznalosť je matkou šťastia a zmyslovej blaženosti.“

„Prečo toľko spíme a zaháľame zaživa, keď budeme musieť toľko zaháľať a spať po smrti?“

„Vynášate nado mnou rozsudok s väčším strachom, než s akým ho ja počúvam.“

„Chovanie dôstojného filozofa spočíva v oslobodení sa od telesných útrap, aby necítil trýzeň.“

„Ignorancia je najmilšia zo všetkých náuk, pretože nevyžaduje žiadne úsilie a nevedie k melanchólii.“

„Kto zväčšuje múdrosť, zväčšuje bolesť.“

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

“To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary… Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.”

“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.”

“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.”

“If he is not Nature herself, he is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if he is not the soul herself.”

“The universe comprises all being in a totality; for nothing that exists is outside or beyond infinite being, as the latter has no outside or beyond.”

“Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life.”

“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.”

“The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.”

“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.”

“If it is not true it is very well invented.”

“Oh holy asinity! holy ignorance!
Holy foolishness and pious devotion!
You who alone do more to advance and make souls good
Than human ingenuity and study…”

“Before anything else the One must exist eternally; from his power derives everything that always is or will ever be. He is the Eternal and embraces all times. He knows profoundly all events and He himself is everything. He creates everything beyond any beginning of time and beyond any limit of place and space. He is not subject to any numerical law, or to any law of measure or order. He himself is law, number, measure, limit without limit, end without end, act without form.”

“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.”

“It is manifest… that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity…”

“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.”

“For nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things, distant from none; naught is distant from her except the false, and that which existed never and nowhere—nullity. And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind, God, Being, One, Truth, Destiny, Reason, Order.”

“Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.”

“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance — a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”

“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.”

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

“A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All things are in all.”

“Pray, O pray to God, dear friends, if you are not already asses — that he will cause you to become asses… There is none who praiseth not the golden age when men were asses: they knew not how to work the land. One knew not how to dominate another, one understood no more than another; caves and caverns were their refuge; they were not so well covered nor so jealous nor were they confections of lust and of greed. Everything was held in common.”

“It is manifest that every soul has a certain continuity with the soul of the Universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity. The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the Universe. It is not mixed, yet is there in some presence.”

“Given that annihilation of nature in its entirety is impossible, and that death and dissolution are not appropriate to the whole mass of this entire globe or star, from time to time, according to an established order, it is renewed, altered, changed, and transformed in all its parts.”

“Candelaio, Act IV, Scene XVII.”