I was watching an anime when a quite interesting conversation happened. I
could only read the subtitles as my Japanese is really bad but I tried my best
to reconstruct the sentence afterwards.

[Here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nkzdmn6iSSLcVkz3VRnL4O-Hq3isiZmh/view?usp=sharing)
is a copy of the section:

From what I can understand (please correct me) it's something like

> 迷うのが人間です。だからこそ崇高でありたいとのその。

The subtitles where something like

> Having doubts is human, that is why we try to be devine.

So I checked the 迷 in this sentence and there are many possible translations.
In the context of the situation it really was about having doubts as a human
and becoming someone like Bhudda,so maybe due to the 辶 in 迷 denoting a sort of
path on which somebody is lost on his spiritual travel towards Nirvana? But
out of this context is there any reason in using 迷 here instead of other
things like 危疑?
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How would you interpret 迷 in this sentence?
First, the correct transcription is:

> 迷うのが人間です。だからこそ崇高でありたいと **望む** 。

This 迷う is a verb that just means "to hesitate to make up one's mind" or "to
think much and be unable to decide". Although there is no perfect equivalent
in English, this is a very common and mundane verb in Japanese, and it has
nothing to do with a specific religion. For example 迷っています usually just means
"I'm still thinking". You can see several example sentences
[here](http://www.eikaiwanow.com/blog/decide) and
[here](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/39085/). "Having doubts" should
be one of the possible translations depending on the context.

Grammatically, this is a [cleft
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/19208/5010) made from 人間は迷う.

> 人間は迷います。  
>  Human beings cannot decide.
>
> 迷うのが人間です。  
>  It's human beings who cannot decide.  
>  (This が is for exhaustive-listing)

One sentence similar to this is 失敗するのが人間だ ("To err is human").
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I found it is very difficult to translate without some background info.I
couldn't figure out what the speaker actually meant. Here could be one of
possible interpretations.

＞迷うのが人間です。だからこそ崇高でありたいと望む。

We may make mistakes because we are human, therefore, I wish to follow noble
instinct.

Does it make sense for the anime?
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