Eighthly, concerning another line of reasoning, it is shewn that simple bodies of identical nature in innumerable diverse worlds have similar motion,… - Giordano Bruno

"El amor no es ciego en sí y, si convierte en ciegos a algunos amantes, no es por sí mismo sino por la innoble disposición del sujeto, como ocurre cuando las aves nocturnas se ciegan en presencia del sol. En lo que a él se refiere, pues, el amor ilustra, esclarece, abre el intelecto, haciendo penetrar en él toda cosa y suscitando milagrosos efectos. El amor "muestra" por tanto "el paraíso" en el sentido de que abre la comprensión, el entendimiento y la vía de la acción a cosas altísimas; o, también, engrandeciendo -en apariencia al menos- las cosas amadas."

Tenthly, after it hath been seen how the obstinate and the ignorant of evil disposition are accustomed to dispute, it will further be shewn how disputes are wont to conclude; although others are so wary that without losing their composure, but with a sneer, a smile, a certain discreet malice, that which they have not succeeded in proving by argument — nor indeed can it be understood by themselves — nevertheless by these tricks of courteous disdain they [pretend to have proven], endeavouring not only to conceal their own patently obvious ignorance but to cast it on to the back of their adversary. For they dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.