Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Daily Dose

From Daily Readings with Blaise Pascal, edited by Robert Van de Weyer

MAN'S GREATNESS

"Man's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched.  A tree does not know that it is wretched.  One must feel wretched to know that one is wretched.  But that knowledge raises man above the trees."

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