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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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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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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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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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