If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
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… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar as angle exists in itself but… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share
