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Human wisdom reaches only to human affairs, and cannot touch the divine.
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The quote draws a boundary between human understanding and the divine. It says that wisdom gained through human experience can help people deal with ordinary human matters, but it cannot fully reach or grasp what belongs to the divine. Human knowledge therefore has limits beyond the world people can directly understand.
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- Gems of Chinese Literature, translated by Herbert A. Giles
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