Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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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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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 one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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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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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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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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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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