Giordano Bruno Quotes on Nature
Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, cosmologist, and former Dominican friar. This page collects quotes attributed to Giordano Bruno on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The universe is, then, one, infinite, immobile.”
As translated by Paul Harrison -
Attributed to Giordano Bruno:
“There are countless suns and countless earths all rotating around their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system.”
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“Divinity reveals itself in all things; everything has divinity latent within itself.”
As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964) -
“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 .”
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson , in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429