Nicholas of Cusa Quotes on Knowledge
Nicholas of Cusa was a German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician at the threshold between the medieval and Renaissance worlds. This page collects quotes attributed to Nicholas of Cusa on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nicholas of Cusa:
“The intellect knows that it is ignorant.”
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Attributed to Nicholas of Cusa:
“Every searcher into truth knows by some revelation.”
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“It is you, O God, who is being sought in various religions in various ways, and named with various names. For you remain as you are, to all incomprehensible and inexpressible. When you will graciously grant it then sword, jealous hatred and evil will cease and all will come to know that there is but one religion in the variety of religious rites.”
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It is you, O God, who is being sought in various religions in various ways, and named with various names. For you remain as you are, to all incomprehensible and inexpressible. When you will graciously grant it then sword, jealous hatred and evil will cease and all will come to know that there is but one religion in the variety of religious rites. -
“Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.”
Nicholas of Cusa and Jasper Hopkins (Translator). On Equality. 1459. -
“Nicholas of Cusa and Jasper Hopkins (Translator). On Equality. 1459.”
Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself. -
“Theosophy Trust, Great Teachers Series”
Now I behold as in a mirror, in an icon, in a riddle, life eternal, for that is naught other than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest most lovingly to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life; 'tis unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feedi -
“Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them.”
ibid.