More plainly than Schopenhauer the Church declared that there is nothing to wish for here below, nothing to expect, but where the mere catalogues of the philosopher stop, the Church went on, Overpassing the limits of the senses, declared the end of man, and defined his limitations.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The coming and going of these limited waters, folding back on themselves, yet never Overpassing the basin they had hollowed for themselves, led him on into long reveries.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The eye of Intelligence is yet more exalted; for Overpassing the sphere of the universal, it will behold absolute form itself by the pure force of the mind's vision.
"The Consolation of Philosophy"
Boethius