Nicholas of Cusa Quotes

• Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

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  Divinity, Way, All Things

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• In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

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  Lying, Humility, Greatness

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• Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

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  Ignorance, Men, Zealous

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• All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

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  Science, Truth Is, Absolute Truth

  "On Learned Ignorance" by Nicholas of Cusa, 1440.

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• God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

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  Karma, Men, Thyself

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• Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

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  Love Is, Known

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• In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

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  Faith, Science, Understanding

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• Tú eres misericordioso; cuando todo mi empeño se vuelve hacia Ti porque todo Tu empeño se vuelve hacia mí; cuando sólo a Ti miro con toda mi atención, sin apartar jamás los ojos de mi mente, porque Tú me envuelves con Tu constante mirada; cuando sólo hacia Ti dirijo mi amor porque Tú, que eres el Amor mismo, sólo hacia mí Te has vuelto. ¿Y qué es, Señor, mi vida, sino ese abrazo en el que me envuelve tan amorosamente tu deliciosa dulzura?

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  Art, Eye, Self

  "The Vision of God".

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• All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

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  Desire, All Things

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• The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.

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  Mean, Space, Beginnings And Ends

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• There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

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  Speak, Centre

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• In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

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  Creating, World, Astronomy

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• Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

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  Bears, Eternity, Eternal

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• Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

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  Desire, Good Things

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• With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

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  Men, Intellect, Senses

  "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.

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• For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.

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  Fire, Flames, Wind

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• The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

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  Men, Perfect, Desire

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• Si, pues, el hombre ha venido al mundo para buscar a Dios y, si lo ha encontrado, para adherirse a Él y encontrar reposo en la adhesión a Él -el hombre no puede buscarlo y alcanzarlo en este mundo sensible y corpóreo, puesto que Dios es espíritu y no cuerpo, y no puede ser alcanzado en la abstracción intelectual, ya que no se es capaz de concebir nada semejante a Dios, como él afirma-, ¿cómo se puede, por tanto, buscarlo para encontrarlo?

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  Men, Order, Intellectual

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• Aquellos, sin embargo, que vieron que no se puede alcanzar la sabiduría y la vida intelectual perenne, a menos que sea dada por el don de la gracia, y que la bondad de Dios Todopoderoso es tan grande que escucha a los que invocan su nombre, y obtienen la salvación, se hicieron humildes, reconociéndose ignorantes, y dirigieron su vida como la vida de quien desea la sabiduría eterna. Y ésa es la vida de los virtuosos, que proceden en el deseo de la otra vida, que es elogiada por los santos.

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  Humble, Names, Grace

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• The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

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  Eye, Color, Found

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• But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

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  Light, Soul, Causes

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• Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.

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  Order, Soul, Different

  "Nicholas of Cusa On learned ignorance: a translation and an appraisal of De docta ignorantia". Book by Nicholas of Cusa, translated by Jasper Hopkins, 1981.

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• There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

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  Ser, Seria, Virtud

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• Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.

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  World, Causes, Indivisible

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• For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

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  Body, Unions, Members

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