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.
GIORDANO BRUNODesire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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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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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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There is no law governing all things.
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