Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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 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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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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