There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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 hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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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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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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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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It 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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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 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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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