Communication Quotes by Nicholas of Cusa

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

— Nicholas of Cusa

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

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

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

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

— Nicholas of Cusa

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

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

— Nicholas of Cusa

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

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

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

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

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