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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI 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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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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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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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