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Even though you acknowledge diverse religions, you all presuppose in all of this diversity the one, which you call wisdom

— Nicholas of Cusa De Pace Fidei (The Peace of Faith) (1453)

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God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of the entire universe.

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.

For a persistent and continued ascent to [the Principle and Source of] life is the constituent element of increased happiness.

De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)

With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

For we see that man is a civil and political animal, and is naturally inclined to civilization.

De concordantia catholica (The Catholic Concordance) (1434)

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