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.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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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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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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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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There is no law governing all things.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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