“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
— Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal, Pensées, "The Wager"
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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Blaise Pascal, June 19, 1623 / 2023 — 400
(image: Blaise Pascal, Traité du triangle arithmétique, avec quelques autres petits traitez sur la mesme matière, Guillaume Desprez, Paris, 1665 (Département Réserve des livres rares, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris). From: Pascal 1623 – 1662, Approfondir: Pascal géometre, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Pensées
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From Blaise Pascal’s Pensées
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"İnsanın küçük şeylere hassasiyeti ve büyük şeylere karşı kayıtsızlığı: Tuhaf bir altüst oluşun resmidir."
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal
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我々は理性によってのみではなく、心によって真実を知る。
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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ブレーズ・パスカル
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Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation
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Si todo es insatisfacción en nuestra vida, ¿qué nos empuja con tanta fuerza a a buscar la felicidad? La única explicación plausible es que el hombre conoció en otro momento un estado puro de felicidad. De este estado solo queda en el organismo humano una pincelada difusa, vacía de contenido, pero todavía viva. Una grieta que ha tratado de llenar con todo lo que encontraba a mano. Convencido de que no iba a encontrarla entre las cosas que lo rodean, supone que la encontrará entre lo invisible. Y es cierto que este hueco infinito que el hombre siente con desesperación solo puede llenarlo una criatura infinita e inmutable: el propio Dios.
—Blaise Pascal, anotación de Pensamientos, seleccionada en Tratados de la desesperación. Edición de Gustavo Torné.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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