With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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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.
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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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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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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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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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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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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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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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