Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance Quotes

“In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity; absolute actuality is absolute potentiality.”
― Nicolaus Cusanus, Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance: A Translation and an Appraisal of De Docta Ignorantia

“We surmise, that in the solar region there are inhabitants which are more solar, brilliant, illustrious, and intellectual—being even more spiritlike than [those] on the moon, where [the inhabitants] are more moonlike, and than [those] on the earth, [where they are] more material and more solidified . . . We believe this on the basis of the fiery influence of the sun and on the basis of the watery and aerial influence of the moon and the weighty material influence of the earth. In like manner, we surmise that none of the other regions of the stars are empty of inhabitants—as if there were as many particular mondial parts of the one universe as there are stars, of which there is no number.”
― Nicholas of Cusa, Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance: A Translation and an Appraisal of De Docta Ignorantia