_For Port Royal. The beginning, after having explained the incomprehen… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_For Port Royal. The beginning, after having explained the incomprehensibility._--The greatness and the wretchedness of man are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is in man some great source of greatness, and a great source of wretchedness. It must then give us a reason for these astonishing contradictions.

Place: SECTION VII · ¶1200
License: Public domain · Source
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