A Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

Otherness cannot be a form. For to alter is to deform rather than to form. Therefore, that which is seen in different things can also be seen in and of itself without otherness, since otherness did not give being to it.

Nicholas of Cusa

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Nicholas of Cusa
1401 - August 11, 1464

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

Mary Oliver

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Octavio Paz

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Eckhart Tolle

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Neil Gaiman

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

Sharon Gannon

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

D. H. Lawrence

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

William Cronon

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Marcus Aurelius

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

Sylvia Plath

I think art breaks down otherness.

Dee Rees

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

Sue Hubbell

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

Woodrow Wilson

The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

Pankaj Mishra

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