The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
GIORDANO BRUNOThus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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 single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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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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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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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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