Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOEverywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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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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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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