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.
GIORDANO BRUNOOne 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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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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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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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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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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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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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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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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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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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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.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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