"I didn't know that God is a soul, therefore it has no parts, no length and width, no mass, because the mass is directly smaller in any part than in the whole. So even if I assume that it is infinite, the part defined by a certain space would be smaller than the infinite whole, so it cannot be in its entirety everywhere exactly where it is. And the soul is like that, and so is God.
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I didn't know that God is a soul, therefore it has no parts, no length and width, no mass, because the mass is directly smaller in any part than in the whole. So even if I assume that it is infinite, the part defined by a certain space would be smaller than the infinite whole, so it cannot be in its entirety everywhere exactly where it is. And the soul is like that, and so is God.
""Nem tudtam, hogy lélek az Isten, következőleg nincsenek tagjai, nincsen hossza és szélessége, nincs tömege, mert a tömeg okvetlenül kisebb bármelyik részében, mint egészében. Tehát ha felteszem is, hogy végtelen, kisebb lenne a bizonyos térrel meghatározott rész, mint a végtelen egész, következőleg nem tud a maga egészében mindenütt egészen ott lenni, ahol van. A lélek pedig ilyen, s Isten is ilyen."