It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think… - Giordano Bruno

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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

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