Pascal

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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)