Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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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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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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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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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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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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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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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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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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