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

— Giordano Bruno Attributed

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Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself.

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.

De immenso (1591)

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

The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584)

If it is not true it is very well invented.

De gli heroici furori (1585)

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space]] is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

De immenso (1591)

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