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.
GIORDANO BRUNOMy son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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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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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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