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But if our gaze stops there, let the imagination pass beyond this point; it will grow tired of conceiving of things before nature tires of producing them. The entire visible world is only an imperceptible speck in the ample bosom of nature. No idea can come close to imagining it. We might inflate our concepts to the most unimaginable expanses: we only produce atoms in relation to the reality of things. Nature is an infinite sphere in which the center is everywhere, the circumference is nowhere. Finally, it is the greatest sensible mark of God's omnipotence, that our imagination loses itself in that thought.
Let man, having returned to himself, consider what he is in comparison with all that is; let him see himself as if thrown out of the district of Nature; and, from this little prison cell in which he finds his lodging, I mean the universe, let him learn to judge the earth, its kingdoms, its villages, and himself with a proper estimation. What is man in the infinite?
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From Pascal's Pensees
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No, calling God "infinite" is neither imprecise nor figurative. Infinity is that which is greater than what we can comprehend. So God is infinity itself, not a thing which partakes of infinity. Within the terror and wonder of the concept of infinity is where Pascal and others find the justification for their faith. It may be incorrect, but it’s not gobbledygook.
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Pascal, legend.