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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIn this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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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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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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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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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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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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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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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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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 stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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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