Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is…

- Nicholas Of Cusa

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon …

- Nicholas Of Cusa

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

- Nicholas Of Cusa

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

- Nicholas Of Cusa

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

- Nicholas Of Cusa

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

- Nicholas Of Cusa

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

- Nicholas Of Cusa

Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my…

- 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.

- Nicholas Of Cusa