Quotes from Nicholas of Cusa

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

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

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

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

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

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.

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.

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