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

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Source : "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.

Nicholas of Cusa

#Men Quotes #Intellect Quotes #Senses Quotes

“The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus peopleâ€¦We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.”
“Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle."”
“Another over-rated Brazilian... Sort your hamstrings out FatBoy..”
“I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was not my primary audience. It was that person you like who tells you they don't get poetry, and you think to yourself, aw man, what can I do for this good person?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool”
“Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.”

Source : "Due process, detention and defense". thehill.com. January 30, 2012.
“Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.”
“Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.”

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