 | John Herman Randall Jr. - 1977 - 372 pages
...thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their illuni. ile genesis and nature. . . .He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. . . .He alone knows that under all things there lies an impenetrable mystery. (59, 60) In 1862 there... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pages
...insoluble enigma; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate nature nothing can be known."27 The only... | |
 | Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - 474 pages
...inscrutable."1 The scientific thinker, according to him, "learns at THE ABSOLUTE AS EXISTENCE 137 jnce the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect—...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realises with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact,... | |
 | Edward N. Haas - 2001 - 477 pages
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 | W. C. Owen - 2002 - 256 pages
...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact,... | |
 | Paul Kurtz - 2003 - 370 pages
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... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. 
