The Unyielding Striver: “Is He Not the One Who Keeps Trying, Knowing It’s Futile?”

The gatekeeper said of Confucius: “Is he not the man who acts even when he knows it’s impossible?”

It is he, is it not?” said the other, “who knows the impracticable nature of the times and yet will be doing in them.”
是知其不可而为之者与?

Source: The Analects, Xian Wen XIV, Chapter 38

Author: The Gatekeeper of Shi Men (speaking of Confucius)

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