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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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.
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All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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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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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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