Human Limitation and the Mystery of Being

Eric Van Evans
7 min readApr 18, 2023

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“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

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Eric Van Evans

Eric Van Evans is a professor, writer, philosopher, and YouTuber. Rutgers BA: Philosophy and Psychology Johns Hopkins MA: Global Security and Intelligence