Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
GIORDANO BRUNOInnumerable 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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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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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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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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