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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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  Beautiful, Hate, Sight

  Giordano Bruno, Robert de Lucca, Richard J. Blackwell (1998). “Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

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  Destiny, Order, Mind

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• When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. 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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  Powerful, World, Earth

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.

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  Space, Giving, Perfect

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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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  Soul, Together, Spirit

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• All things are in all.

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  All Things

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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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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  Essence, Divine, Participation

  "Great Theosophists: Giordano Bruno". Theosophy Magazine, Volume 26, No. 8 (pp. 338-344), June 1938.

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• Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

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  Foundation, Coincidence, Compass

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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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  Space, Matter, Infinity

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

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  Teamwork, Iron, Hammers

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• Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

  Giordano Bruno

  Eye, Space, Ends

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

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  Soul, World, Way

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• 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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  Science, Infinite, Limitless

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.

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  Color, Quality, Decay

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

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  Together, Delight, Existence

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

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  Atheism, Return, Praying

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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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, 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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  Principles, Substance, Elements

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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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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  Atheism, Argument, Accepting

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, 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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  Believe, Hero, Son

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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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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  Stars, Science, Space

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

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  Lying, Differences, Evil

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

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  Together, May, Has Beens

  Giordano Bruno (1889). “The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori): An Ethical Poem”

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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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  Substance, Said, Changed

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

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  Fear, Atheism, Sentences

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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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

  Space, Atheism, Chance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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