“Bruno stood at the stake in solitary and awful grandeur. There was not a friendly face in the vast crowd around him. It was one man against the world. Surely the knight of Liberty, the champion of Freethought, who lived such a life and died such a death, without hope of reward on earth or in heaven, sustained only by his indomitable manhood, is worthy to be accounted the supreme martyr of all time. He towers above the less disinterested martyrs of Faith like a colossus; the proudest of them might walk under him without bending.”
“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 n...”
Giordano Bruno
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
Giordano Bruno
“Chi vuole che la quaresima gli paia corta, si faccia debito per pagare a Pasqua.”
Giordano Bruno
“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”
Giordano Bruno
“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”
Giordano Bruno