Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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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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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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 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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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