For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
GIORDANO BRUNONature 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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It 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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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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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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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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