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Early on in the book, a character accused of getting things out of proportion is told: "There is no proportion.
The abrupt descent into particularity in every statement of this kind – Being itself made an auxiliary to some momentary accident of being – may only startle in the dark of night, when the intuition comes that there is no proportion between the great given of existence and the narrow vessel of circumstance into which it is inevitably forced.
A fortiori, when it comes to the unlimited God, Nicholas asserts that "there is no proportion between finite and infinite".
What Cusanus provides in his metaphorical forays is not simply imaginative originality, but a series of metaphors designed to remind us that there is no proportion between creatures and creator; that indeed there is an asymmetry between them.
Cardano rules out that "this life of ours can get close to that which truly is," for there is no proportion and no resemblance between the two levels of being.
Echoing Cusanian motifs, he argues that "everything that is understood by a finite being is finite, for the act of understanding (comprehensio) occurs through some proportion; but there is no proportion between the infinite and the finite".
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