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Nicholas of Cusa Quotes: All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.
         

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


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



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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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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