My plans were a little sidetracked when I began meeting with my Great Books Group. It is such a pleasure to share the joys and struggles of reading such important literature. I'll be hopscotching from book to book, leaving behind order and plan for serendipity. Rather than the previously mentioned Freud and Monkey, I will be sharing some of my favorite quotes from Pascal's Pensees. Enjoy.
"The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first."
"Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice because might has gainsaid justice and has declared that it is she herself who is just. And thus, being unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong, just."
"Let us, therefore, not look for certainty and stability. Our reason is always deceived by fickle shadows; nothing can fix the finite between the two Infinites, which both enclose and fly from it."
"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."
"The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into the mind and heart by force and threats is not to put religion there, but terror."
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