“La mente humana es una cosa limitada; por ello, cuando pensamos en un ser o entidad que está más allá de nuestro humano poder de comprensión, lo hacemos sujetos necesariamente a nuestras limitaciones.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Spanish; attributed via the Gandhi compilation 'My Religion' (a genuine collection of his writings), but the exact primary line on the limits of the human mind was not located.
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Whenever we reach for something larger than our understanding, we can only picture it with the tools we have: words, images, and categories built for ordinary life. The point is humility. What we describe is our own reach, not the thing itself, so certainty about the infinite is usually just confidence in our frame.
When to use it
- A physics student realizing every model of the cosmos is a simplification, useful but never the whole thing.
- A grieving person who stops demanding a tidy explanation for loss and sits with the mystery instead.
- A debate group that agrees to argue about the divine while admitting none of them can define it.