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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;

Giordano Bruno

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Father Mind Mother Time Truth
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
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
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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Antiquity Authority Beg Faith Reject
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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Alter Always Element Eternal Preserve Producible Substance True
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Around Circle Eath Numberless Sun
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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Base Low Majority Masses Merely Mind One Proof Think Wish
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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Art Century Come Develop Know Many Science When
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
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
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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Consider Infinite Necessity Now Place Providence Space Universe
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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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Ceremonies Daith Establish Fool Life Religion Rule Those World
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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All Apprehenf Few Internal Power Say Thing Understand
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Deliver Fear Judgement May More Upon

Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;

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