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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,

Giordano Bruno

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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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Plant Thing
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
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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Believe Fought Therefore Victory
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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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Being Consider Discover Immutably Neither Ourselves Substance Universe
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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Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way
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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All Around Bring Capacity Even Ever Flirty Infinite Malleability New Potential Reception Space
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
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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Clever Eternal Ever Field Globe Heaven Infinite Other Own Penetrate Soar Wile
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People
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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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Around Circle Eath Numberless Sun
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
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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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
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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Being Essence Existence First Last Nothing Presence

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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