Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

— Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

— Giordano Bruno

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

— Giordano Bruno

Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.

— Giordano Bruno

It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.

— Giordano Bruno

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

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

— Giordano Bruno

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

— Giordano Bruno

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

— Giordano Bruno

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

— Giordano Bruno