“For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.” BodyMembersUltimateUnionsIntellectEverlastingInseparableEverlasting Life Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“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 and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?” IfsMenWorldBodyAbleSpiritOrderFoundIntellectualReal WorldSensibleAbstractionRepose Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“It has been asserted that there is a separate species on the earth to correspond with each one of the stars. Now if the earth provides in each species a focus for the action of each star, why may not a similar provision be made among other heavenly bodies that are subject to the action of their fellows?” IfsMayHas BeensMadeBodyActionEarthStarsFocusSubjectsFellowsSpeciesHeavenlyProvisionHeavenly Bodies Author:Nicholas of Cusa
