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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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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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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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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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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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 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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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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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 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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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