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All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

Giordano Bruno

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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Believe Fought Therefore Victory
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
I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Held Hold Immortal Soul
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Around Circle Eath Numberless Sun
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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Arouse Beautiful Contrary Disgrace Feeling Hate Love Sight
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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Await Daybreak Dwell Keep Look Love Obscure Rejoice Return Whole
Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Plant Thing
For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All Aspect Change Diminishing Fact Nothing Space Substance Thing Wandering
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
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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Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Body But End Eye Immensity Space Vanquished
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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Begin Contraries End Birth Growth Middle Perfection Whatever
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People
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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All Await Come Less Pass See Sentemnnce Substance Will
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
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Center Circumference Neither Universe
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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Both Concise Contrairies Foundation Masketh Origin Our Primal Reduceth Single
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
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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Being Consider Discover Immutably Neither Ourselves Substance 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
With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Brain Luck Side Without
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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Absolute Aught Better Greater Ine Infinite Itself Perfect Simplicity

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