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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIn space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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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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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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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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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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