Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat 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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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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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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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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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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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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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