Join Date: Dec 2006
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I find Blaise Pascal to be an intriguing character so if anyone knows anything interesting to post about him or his philosophical/theological activities post them here.
I think he states the human condition very well in his Pensées #72:
"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. ”
