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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.

Giordano Bruno

From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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Coincidence Compas Contraries Difficult Every Other True Ultimate
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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Encduce Eternal Expand Immutable Itself One Only Philosophy Same
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People Truth
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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All Being Essence Nothing Over Particular Understand
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
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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Clever Eternal Ever Field Globe Heaven Infinite Other Own Penetrate Soar Wile
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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Asset Do Foal Great Little Money Son
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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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
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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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Body But End Eye Immensity Space Vanquished
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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Accept Argument Denied End Explain Right Sophistic Understand Well
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
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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Being Consider Discover Immutably Neither Ourselves Substance Universe
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe

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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