All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
GIORDANO BRUNOOf 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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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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All things are in all.
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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