Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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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.
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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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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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