Absolute truth Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

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

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

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

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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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You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality,…

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Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee…

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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…

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We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with…

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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…

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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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