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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is no law governing 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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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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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All things are in all.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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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 being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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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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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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