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.
GIORDANO BRUNODivinity reveals herself in all things.
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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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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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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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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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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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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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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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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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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