Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalStichwörter: blaise-pascal
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
Blaise PascalStichwörter: education god spirituality christian student mathematics pascal mathematicians blaise-pascal philisophy
What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win all while those who compromised their intellectual integrity lose everything.
There are many other possibilities. There might be many gods, including one who favors people like Pascal; but the other gods might overpower or outvote him, à la Homer. Nietzsche might well have applied to Pascal his cutting remark about Kant: when he wagered on God, the great mathematician 'became an idiot.
Stichwörter: philosophy nietzsche homer pascal speculation kant pascal-s-wager blaise-pascal mathematician friedrich-nietzsche immanuel-kant
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