God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
GIORDANO BRUNOI regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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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 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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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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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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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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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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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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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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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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Time takes all and gives all
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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