Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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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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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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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 need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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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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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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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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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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