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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.

Giordano Bruno

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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All Apprehenf Few Internal Power Say Thing Understand
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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All Anything Include Inelf Own Soil Take Universe Way World
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People Truth
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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Await Daybreak Dwell Keep Look Love Obscure Rejoice Return Whole
There is no law governing all things.
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All Governing Law No Thing
In 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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Constellation Countless Give Light Planet Sea Spare Sun
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
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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Base Low Majority Masses Merely Mind One Proof Think Wish
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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Change Deform Eternal Form Incorporeal Nothing Substance
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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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
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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Being Essence Existence First Last Nothing Presence
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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Apprehensible Comprehend Delight Draw Knowable Thing Together
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Bridal Desire Me Urge While
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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Begin Contraries End Birth Growth Middle Perfection Whatever

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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