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.
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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Time takes all and gives all
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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In 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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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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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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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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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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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Innumerable 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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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