Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOThus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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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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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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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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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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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 gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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There is no law governing all things.
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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