Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
George Santayana
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There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world — how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.
Max Muller
Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.
David (philosopher) Wood
And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate--which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.
Socrates
While I am watching over you,
no great need will overcome you.
be mindful of the name of the Trinity
And none shall overcome you.Taliesin
... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.
David Gemmell
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