Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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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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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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 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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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 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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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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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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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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