If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
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 Image
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
