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On the Vertigo of the InfiniteToday's Deep Dive

Blaise Pascal

1623 - 1662 • Christian Existentialism

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Pensées

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Section III OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER

Swallowed by EternityExistential ReflectionHuman Insignificance

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When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there...

- Pensées

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Pascal weaponizes the vastness of the cosmos to expose the terrifying fragility of a life without divine purpose.

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