The 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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