The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere 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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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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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.
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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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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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 space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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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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Of 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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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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