Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
GIORDANO BRUNODivine 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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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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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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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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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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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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The 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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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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