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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.

Giordano Bruno

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
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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Appear Contrary Dispute Even Learn More Opinion Order Seek Truth Victory
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Father Mind Mother Time Truth
I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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Clever Eternal Ever Field Globe Heaven Infinite Other Own Penetrate Soar Wile
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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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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Always Comprehension Divine Itself Light Man Present Reject Sense
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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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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All Await Come Less Pass See Sentemnnce Substance Will
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Base Low Majority Masses Merely Mind One Proof Think Wish
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Be God Infinite Must Too Universe
Time takes all and gives all
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All Give Take Time
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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Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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Differently Divinity Glow Go Knew Latent Men Nature Subject Success Thing Work
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Bridal Desire Me Urge While
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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All Being Essence Nothing Over Particular Understand

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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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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