“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
“To be human is to see that we are somehow incomplete beings, advancing to a horizon that always recedes from view. And this is not a scientific, but a metaphysical or a religious truth about us. In the words of T. S. Eliot, writing in the depths of the Second World War, centuries away from the cultural milieu of Pascal yet sharing something of the restlessness of his religious vision: “We shall not cease from exploration.” — John Cottingham, Religion and the Mystery of Existence
Human Limitations:
While persons have made significant intellectual progress, it remains true that we are still significantly constrained by our limited and fallible nature. All human discourse and the beliefs that emerge from it, flow through the restricted channel of limitation, transcription, and interpretation. There will never be, in our current reality, an absolute grasp of knowledge. “No where,” writes David Bentley Hart, “not even in the sciences, does there exist a “purely natural” realm of knowledge. To encounter the world is to encounter its being, which is gratuitously imparted to it from…
