The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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 beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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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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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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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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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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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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There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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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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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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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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