I cleave the heavens and soar ...

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite.  And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field.  That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
 Giordano Bruno

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
 Giordano Bruno
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
 Giordano Bruno
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
My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
 Giordano Bruno
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
 Giordano Bruno