Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNOThus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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!
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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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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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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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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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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 regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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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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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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