Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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