In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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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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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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 gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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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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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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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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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