“In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.” WorldUsedCreatingAstronomyGeometryArithmetic Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.” WorldCausesThis WorldVisibleReal WorldIndivisible 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
“You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.” WorldRunningAbleUniverseFoundVisionLordPathKingsTasteSpeechHearingIntellectSmellRationality Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.” IfsKnowsWorldMatterAbleFacesFormArtistKnow HowPiecesMinutesThis WorldProduceKingsWoodsQueensMasteryGreat ArtAntsAdmirableGreat ArtistSubtletyCamelsActualitySmall Pieces Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.” IfsWorldMeanEndsSpaceCasesMaterialsLimitsConclusionCentreWithout GodBeginnings And Ends Author:Nicholas of Cusa
