Since everything then is cause and effect, dependent and supporting, m… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Since everything then is cause and effect, dependent and supporting, mediate and immediate, and all is held together by a natural though imperceptible chain, which binds together things most distant and most different, I hold it equally impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole, and to know the whole without knowing the parts in detail.

Place: SECTION II · ¶239
License: Public domain · Source
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