In 1440 (having already written on the Reform of the Calendar) he began his imposing series of philosophical writings with the De Docta Ignorantia, to which the De Conjecturis was added in the following year.
These were succeeded by smaller treatises entitled De Quaerendo Deum, De Dato Patris Luminum, De Filiatione Dei, De Genesi, and a defense of the De Docta Ignorantia.
But it is just this insight into the incomprehensibility of the infinite which gives us a true knowledge of God; this is the meaning of the "learned ignorance," the docta ignorantia.
The docta wants to keep me he'e and make money out of me; I undastand him; and I don't believe that consul's a bit too good to take a pussentage.
I've been in such misery the whole night long, and the docta didn't do a thing for me.
I want you should give him a twenty-leary note just as quick as you see him; and oh, isn't the docta comin'?
I staid wid dat boss doctasumpin like a yer, an den wont back to my Ole Boss.
How clearly Cusanus anticipated another phase of our modern views may be judged from what he has to say in "De Docta Ignorantia" with regard to the constitution of the sun.
Perhaps the work of Cusanus that is best known is that "On Learned Ignorance--De Docta Ignorantia," in which the Cardinal points out how many things that educated people think they know are entirely wrong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
