“See, therefore, how you, the philosophers of various schools of thought, agree in the religion of the one God, whom you all presupposed in that which you as lovers of wisdom acknowledge”

—  Nicholas of Cusa

De Pace Fidei (The Peace of Faith) (1453)

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German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer 1401–1464

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