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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

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All is filled with infinity, and beyond infinity there is nothing.

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Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

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The center of the universe is everywhere, and the circumference nowhere.

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He who wants Lent to seem short, should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter.

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

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

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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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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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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

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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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It is Unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

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Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy.

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If he is not Nature herself, he is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if he is not the soul herself.

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To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.

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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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The universe comprises all being in a totality; for nothing that exists is outside or beyond infinite being, as the latter has no outside or beyond.

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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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A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.

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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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Oh holy asinity! holy ignorance!
Holy foolishness and pious devotion!
You who alone do more to advance and make souls good
Than human ingenuity and study...

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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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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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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

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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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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

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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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