“With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.” MenIntellectSenses 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
“Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.” MenFactsKnownGreaterIgnoranceBeneficialZealousSearchers Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.” MenFactsDesirePerfectLonging Author:Nicholas of Cusa
