I who am in the night will move into the day.
GIORDANO BRUNONature 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 Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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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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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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 wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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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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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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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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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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