Sentence examples for finite mind from inspiring English sources

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the religious scholar who was India's first vice president, once wrote that "toleration is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the Infinite".

The heuristic utility of mathematical abstractions in physical cosmology, like "multiple infinites," do not address metaphysical questions satisfactorily, even when resorting to metaphors like "curved space". It is nonsense to affirm that "it is true that there is no truth". There will always be truth about the past that no finite mind grasps.

In the subjectivist interpretation the attributes are projections of the finite mind, therefore the finite mind can never come to know the infinite substance as it is in itself.

The infinite substance as it is in itself, so to speak, is unknowable to the finite mind.

But nothing that is the mode of a particular, contingent and finite mind can be universal, necessary or infinite.

These 'subconscious' products become conscious to the finite mind, Maimon claims, by being represented in space and time.

That our finite minds could master the infinite was inspiring.

Like predestination and free will, I consider redemption a biblical mystery that can not be definitively understood by our finite minds.

If we discover what was going on before the "Big Bang," we will then wonder what was going on before that second "Big Bang". If we discover something outside our "Universe," we will wonder what's beyond that "universe". The Infinite seems destined to remain an unending mystery to finite minds.

Both count as cognitive values because they make theories cognitively accessible, comprehensible to our finite minds.

For Spinoza, finite minds are not themselves substances, but rather modes of thinking substance.