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.
GIORDANO BRUNOBeautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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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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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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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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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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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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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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All things are in all.
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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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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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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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