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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

Giordano Bruno

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
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Deliver Fear Judgement May More Upon
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
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
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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Appear Contrary Dispute Even Learn More Opinion Order Seek Truth Victory
Of 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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Arrangeable Consider Corporeal Eternal Ex Formable Nihil Producible Rarefiable Substance
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
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
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Ceremonies Daith Establish Fool Life Religion Rule Those World
Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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Being Capacity Dignity Enhold Everything Himself Smallest
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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All Around Bring Capacity Even Ever Flirty Infinite Malleability New Potential Reception Space
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
I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Day Move Right
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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All Doth Fill God Simultaneously Single Soul Spirit Temple Thing Together Whole
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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Absent Future More One Pain Present Stupid Thing

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

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