“There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.”
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