Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhat 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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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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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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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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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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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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