114 Quotes by Giordano Bruno

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

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

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

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

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.

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

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 habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.

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 have not a good breastplate of patience.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me