“For nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things, distant from none; naught is distant from her except the false, and that which existed never and nowhere—nullity. 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.”

— Giordano Bruno

VIII 10 as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
De immenso (1591)

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Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548–1600

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