Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNOWe delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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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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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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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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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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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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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