The intellect being developed to the comprehension of a certain definite and specific form, and the will to a love commensurate with such comprehensi… - Giordano Bruno

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The intellect being developed to the comprehension of a certain definite and specific form, and the will to a love commensurate with such comprehension; the intellect does not stop there, but by its own light it is prompted to think of this: that it contains within itself the germ of everything intelligible and desirable, until it comes to comprehend with the intellect the depth of the fountain of ideas, the ocean of every truth and goodness. So that it happens, that whatever conception is presented to the mind, and becomes understood by it, from that which is so presented and comprehended it judges, that above it, is other greater and greater, and finds itself ever in a certain way discoursing and moving with it.

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About Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian universalist pantheist monist philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet, who, following an Inquisition for heresy and the denial of several Catholic doctrines, was burned at the stake in Rome, 1600; born Filippo Bruno, in Nola, Italy, he often called himself Il Nolano (The Nolan).

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Pen Names: Il Nolano
Native Name: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus
Alternative Names: Filippo Bruno
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"El amor no es ciego en sí y, si convierte en ciegos a algunos amantes, no es por sí mismo sino por la innoble disposición del sujeto, como ocurre cuando las aves nocturnas se ciegan en presencia del sol. En lo que a él se refiere, pues, el amor ilustra, esclarece, abre el intelecto, haciendo penetrar en él toda cosa y suscitando milagrosos efectos. El amor "muestra" por tanto "el paraíso" en el sentido de que abre la comprensión, el entendimiento y la vía de la acción a cosas altísimas; o, también, engrandeciendo -en apariencia al menos- las cosas amadas."

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.

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