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.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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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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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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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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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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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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