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 BRUNOIn 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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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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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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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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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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There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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