What, then, will man become? Will he be equal to God or the brutes? Wh… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

What, then, will man become? Will he be equal to God or the brutes? What a frightful difference! What, then, shall we be? Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he anxiously seeks it, that he cannot find it again? And who shall then direct him to it? The greatest men have failed.

Place: SECTION VII · ¶1222
License: Public domain · Source
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