Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, … - Nicholas of Cusa

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Nicholas of Cusa

Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.

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