“[From Schopenhauer's assessments of other philosophers] Bruno and Spinoza are to be entirely excepted. Each stands by himself and alone; and they do not belong either to their age or to their part of the globe, which rewarded the one with death, and the other with persecution and ignominy. Their miserable existence and death in this Western world are like that of a tropical plant in Europe. The banks of the Ganges were their spiritual home; there they would have led a peaceful and honoured life among men of like mind.”
“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