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.
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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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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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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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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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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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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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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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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 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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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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.
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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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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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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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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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