Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt 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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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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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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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 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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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 need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive 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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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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