Greatness and wretchedness…some have inferred man's wretchedness all the more because they have taken his greatness as a proof of it, and others have inferred his greatness with all the more force, because they have inferred it from his very wretchedness…. It is dangerous to make man see too clearly his equality with the brutes … Continue reading Blaise Pascal Thoughts on the Greatness and Wretchedness of Man
Blaise Pascal – “Unless we love the truth, we cannot know it”
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it