Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.
