Nature always begins the same things again, the years, the days, the h… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

Nature always begins the same things again, the years, the days, the hours; in like manner spaces and numbers follow each other from beginning to end. Thus is made a kind of infinity and eternity. Not that anything in all this is infinite and eternal, but these finite realities are infinitely multiplied. Thus it seems to me to be only the number which multiplies them that is infinite.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶388
License: Public domain · Source
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