A Quote by Giordano Bruno

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

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Action Action And Reaction Beginning Behold Birth Degrees Diversity End Growth Middle Motion Multitude Order Perfection Reaction Succession Whatever

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Giordano Bruno
Italian - Philosopher
1548 - February 17, 1600

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

Giordano Bruno

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Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

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Contraries are cured by contraries.

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All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

Without contraries there is no progression.

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The passions often engender their contraries.

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By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

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Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

Carl Jung

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Judith Jamison

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Martin Luther

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Daniel Defoe

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.