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.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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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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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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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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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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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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