“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”

— Giordano Bruno

Quote as translated in The Encyclopedia of Religion Vol. 11 (1987), by Mircea Eliade, p. 459
The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)

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Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548–1600

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