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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

Giordano Bruno

I 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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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All Aspect Change Diminishing Fact Nothing Space Substance Thing Wandering
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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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Plant Thing
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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All Clear Indication Other Own Receive Sign Testimony Virtue
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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Art Century Come Develop Know Many Science When
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
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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Accept Argument Denied End Explain Right Sophistic Understand Well
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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Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe
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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Differently Divinity Glow Go Knew Latent Men Nature Subject Success Thing Work
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
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Button Buttoned Coat Crooked First Rest Wrongly
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
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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All Being Essence Nothing Over Particular Understand
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Center Circumference Neither Universe
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
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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Antiquity Authority Beg Faith Reject

The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

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