29 Quotes by Nicholas of Cusa

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.