I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
GIORDANO BRUNOOf the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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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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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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 gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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