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“That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself.”

Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

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Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Cusa, born in 1401 and died on August 11, 1464, was a versatile scholar, philosopher, theologian, and mathematician whose ideas had a profound impact on posterity, particularly in the development of humanism and the scientific method. more

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