The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
The book The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules of Blaise Pascal was written by author Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Here you can read free online of The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules of Blaise Pascal book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules of Blaise Pascal a good or bad book?
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How long a time is necessary for this? A time proportioned to our vain and pitiful duration. VIII. 1 The nature of self-love and of this human ME is to love sroly self and to consider only self. But what will man do ? He knows not how to prevent this object that he loves from 1 This paragraph is not found in the MS. Of the Thoughts; most moderr editors have nevertheless reproduced it after a contemporaneous copy, t- cannot be doubted that it is Pascal's. CHAPTER m. 175 being full of defects and... miseries : lie wishes to be groat, and he sees himself small ; he wishes to be happy, and sees himself miserable ; he wishes to be perfect, and sees himself full of imperfections ; he wishes to be the object of the love and esteem of men, and he sees that his defects merit only their version and contempt. This embarrassment wherein he finds nimself produces in him the most unjust and most criminal passion that it is possible to imagine ; for he conceives a mor- tal hatred of that truth which reproves him, and convinces him of his defects.
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