>What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.Pensees is blowing my mind!
>>24942087>“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.”
>>24942087I have been thinking about reading him. Thomas Bernhards characters in Woodcutters and Frost keep mentioning him. Is Pensees a good place to start?
>>24942090>Retarded Jewish zombie man God will save us
>>24942182Low iq post. You should look at Christian history as an anthropologist, sympathetically, attempting to understanding the intelligent thoughts of dead men, not assuming your superiority to them on the basis of an ideological disagreement.
>>24942218Pascal renounced math as worldly frivolity due to his religiousness, despite being one of the greatest mathematicians of all time
>>24942252And that in no way refutes Nietzsche's opinion of him as an example of a man of highly intelligent neuroses.
>>24942256I think it reinforces it
>>24942087Par ailleurs, Madame de Lafayette a également été influencée par le jansénisme, un courant religieux rigoriste prônant une austérité morale. Madame de Lafayette admirait « Les Pensées » du mathématicien et philosophe, Pascal qui était janséniste. Tous les exemples de divertissements qu’elle cite dans « La princesse de Clèves » comme la chasse ou le ballet sont les divertissements mentionnés par Pascal dans ses « Pensées ».
>>24942256>neurosesstfu faggot
s{he} was 100% AGP
>>24942177It’s his only philosophical work. The rest is mathematics, so unless you’re interested in that go for the pensees
>>24942494Not counting the letters, of course.
>>24942252>renounced math as worldly frivolityPascal would end up seeing everything unconcerned with the fate of men as "wordly frivolity". The question is why abandoning heckin MATH is the cutoff line of insanity in your eyes.Read him, and you'll understand why the abstract sciences offer no alleviation of our coundition.
