What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNOGod 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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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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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.
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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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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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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).
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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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I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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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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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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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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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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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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