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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.

Giordano Bruno

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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Clever Eternal Ever Field Globe Heaven Infinite Other Own Penetrate Soar Wile
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Greater Perchance Pronounce Recieve Sentence
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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All Await Come Less Pass See Sentemnnce Substance Will
For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All Aspect Change Diminishing Fact Nothing Space Substance Thing Wandering
Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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All Divinity Himself Reveal Thing
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
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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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Other Plant Than Thing
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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All Everything Occur Perfect Thing Unity Universe
There 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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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
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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Constellation Countless Give Light Planet Sea Spare Sun
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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Being Essence Existence First Last Nothing Presence
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People Truth

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