[Whence it seems that God, willing to render the difficulty of our exi… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

[Whence it seems that God, willing to render the difficulty of our existence unintelligible to ourselves, has concealed the knot so high, or, better speaking, so low, that we are quite incapable of reaching it; so that it is not by the proud exertions of our reason, but by the simple submissions of reason, that we can truly know ourselves.

Place: SECTION VII · ¶1242
License: Public domain · Source
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