Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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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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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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