07 June 2009

A quick one on man

Just in case somebody feels the same way, they're not alone. Blaise Pascal put it down nicely in the Pensées almost 350 years ago:
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the universe!

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