It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere 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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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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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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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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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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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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 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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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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