Nicholas of Cusa Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Mean, Soul, Rational

• 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

  Order, Soul, Different

  "Nicholas of Cusa On learned ignorance: a translation and an appraisal of De docta ignorantia". Book by Nicholas of Cusa, translated by Jasper Hopkins, 1981.

• 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.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Soul, Harmony, Otherness

• But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Light, Soul, Causes

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