The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we euro-americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted on other parts of humanity. How can we fail to see that this leads us to live off self-denunciation while taking a strange pride in being the worst? Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification. Evil can come only from us; other people are motivated by sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.
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[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.... BLAISE PASCAL The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in th... BLAISE PASCAL Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of... BLAISE PASCAL It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight o... BLAISE PASCAL All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room
alone. BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake. BLAISE PASCAL What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not beli... BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. BLAISE PASCAL If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the
earth would have been changed. BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand. BLAISE PASCAL It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity BLAISE PASCAL Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality BLAISE PASCAL Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i... BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere BLAISE PASCAL The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing BLAISE PASCAL The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. BLAISE PASCAL I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. BLAISE PASCAL Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in... BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. BLAISE PASCAL Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti... BLAISE PASCAL Little things console us because little things afflict us. BLAISE PASCAL The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand. BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. BLAISE PASCAL Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl... BLAISE PASCAL