If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what…

Blaise Pascal
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If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God ✨ Blaise Pascal (2010). Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.
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