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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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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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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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