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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Giordano Bruno

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Body But End Eye Immensity Space Vanquished
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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Both Concise Contrairies Foundation Masketh Origin Our Primal Reduceth Single
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
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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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Plant Thing
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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Encduce Eternal Expand Immutable Itself One Only Philosophy Same
Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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Await Daybreak Dwell Keep Look Love Obscure Rejoice Return Whole
Time takes all and gives all
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All Give Take Time
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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Constellation Countless Give Light Planet Sea Spare Sun
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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Body Deeply Found Pass Philosopher Reasonable Sepak Since Without
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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Always Comprehension Divine Itself Light Man Present Reject Sense
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

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