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.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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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 Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects 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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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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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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