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After it hath been seen how the obstinate and the ignorant of evil disposition are accustomed to dispute, it will further be shewn how disputes are w… - Giordano Bruno
" "After it hath been seen how the obstinate and the ignorant of evil disposition are accustomed to dispute, it will further be shewn how disputes are wont to conclude; although others are so wary that without losing their composure, but with a sneer, a smile, a certain discreet malice, that which they have not succeeded in proving by argument — nor indeed can it be understood by themselves — nevertheless by these tricks of courteous disdain they pretend to have proven, endeavouring not only to conceal their own patently obvious ignorance but to cast it on to the back of their adversary. For 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.
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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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Native Name:
Iordanus Brunus Nolanus
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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."
If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom. What can Juno give which thou canst not receive from Wisdom? What mayest thou admire in Venus which thou mayest not also contemplate in Wisdom? Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up.
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But here we must consider that it is highly inconvenient to suppose the Supreme and Highest to be similar merely to a performer on the zither who cannot play in the absence of the instrument; thus would a Creator be unable to create because that which he is able to create cannot be created by him. This would lay down an obvious contradiction which cannot be overlooked save by the most ignorant.
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