"The supreme function of reason is to..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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“When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.”
“Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.”
“How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”
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“There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.”
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
“Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.”