Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is infinite, so His universe must be too.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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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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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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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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