If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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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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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 hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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 law governing all things.
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All things are in all.
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