We 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.
GIORDANO BRUNOTruth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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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.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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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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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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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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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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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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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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