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.
GIORDANO BRUNOInnumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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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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