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.
GIORDANO BRUNOWhen 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 gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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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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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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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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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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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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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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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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Time takes all and gives all
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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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