Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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 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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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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