Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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Time takes all and gives 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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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