"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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Source : Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

Giordano Bruno

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“Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.”
“But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

Source : "Transcript of Shriver's Acceptance Speech". www.nytimes.com. August 09, 1972.
“There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.”
“I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.”
“Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.”
“It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.”
“I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.”
“Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.”

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