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Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Knowledge

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Benjamin Disraeli means that religion takes over when human understanding or scientific facts can no longer provide answers. In other words, faith fills the gaps left by the limits of what we can know through reason alone.

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