Sometimes it is still tragically assumed that,
that the best way to cheer someone is to say that everything will be good.
To point out that life is basically a pleasing process,
in which happiness is not a delusion and human fulfillment a real possibility.
However, we need to read only a few pages of a book known as Thoughts
from the 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal,
to appreciate how completely misleading this approach must be.
Pascal retreats from one of the most pessimistic figures
and one of the most encouraging.
This combination is typical.
The darkest thinker, paradoxically, can often be the one that best suits our spirits.
Pascal was born in Auvergne, France in June 1623.
And from the beginning, learn to watch the glass half empty.
His mother died when he was 3 years old, had only a few friends, was hunchbacked, and often sick.
Fortunately, he was known from a young age, not just the pride of his family, but mainly because he was a genius.
At the age of twelve, he produced the first 32 Euclid’s sentences.
He invented a mathematical probability.
He measured the air pressure,
designed the calculator
and designed the first Paris bus.
At the age of 36, the disease forced him to move away from plans for further scientific research,
but she let him write a brilliant, intensely pessimistic series about aphorism in defending against the Christian faith,
which has become known as the Work of Thought, a book that reminds and honors it.
The purpose of the book is to convert the reader to God and the best way
was to provoke everything horrible in life.
When contemplating the misery of mankind,
that his readers immediately turned to the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, for Pascal, a lot of modern readers turn to the Catholic Church.
The first part of the book, including the bad in life,
it has always been more popular than the other part to show us the way to God and a good life with him.
Pascal begins with the fact that happiness is an illusion.
But he is particularly interested in how much we hate to be dependent on ourselves and discovering our own states.
Pascal is probably the most famous genius of aphorism:
“All the misfortunes of men come from the fact that they can not sit still in their room.”
This aphorism should be written in capital letters on all departure signs of all airports in the world.
Pascal’s spell lies in his bitterness and cynicism.
Pascal thinks people would rather do anything than think about the terrible reality.
One is so extravagant that if he had to do the slightest thing like pushing a billiard ball with a cue,
he would rather drop it.
At the same time, Pascal people are tortured by their desire, especially the desire for glory.
People are so bold that they want to be known around the world, and even those who are coming to the world.
And probably the greatest source of suffering is the most bizarre.
Boredom.
We fight against obstacles, but once they are overcome,
we begin to get bored,
because rest is unbearable for us.
Pascal’s bitter conclusion: “What is man? Nothing compared to infinity.”
Pascal does not have the opportunity to confront his readers with proof of
a deviant, poor mankind deserving of nature.
In ever seductive classic France
informs us that happiness is just an illusion.
That poverty is the norm.
That true love is a chimera.
That we are as impatient as vain.
That even the most powerful of us is powerless against the diseases that can hurt us.
That all the world institutions are corrupt.
And finally, we have a tendency to reappraise.
Pascal suggests that the best we can do is
face desperate situations.
Because it is a great surprise for us that reading Pascal,
for us it is not as depressing as we expected.
Work is comfort, warm, sometimes good.
For those who are balancing on the brink of despair, it may be better to give up
than to look for hope until the last moment.
Ideas glorify inner beauty and positive thinking. It also claims to realize the hidden potential
has the power to conquer suicide on a high ledge.
If Pascal’s pessimism can make us so easy to comfort,
it is because we are not usually thrown into the darkness by negativity, just like hope.
It is a hope with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our policies, our planet,
which we primarily blame for our indignation.
The incompatibility of the magnitude of our aspirations and the reality of our state creates a strong disappointment,
which tortures us.
We should honor Pascal and the long line of pessimistic Christians that have shown great service,
that they have pointed out the morbidity and impiety of the human race.
Reading Pascal reminds us that secular moments
were much more optimistic than the religious one.
Naivita considered irony, so he often ridiculed her.
It is secular that his desire has expanded so intensely,
that he could imagine that paradise could be realized
only a few years with financial resources and medical research.
Without mention of contradiction, he refused to believe in angels, while frankly believing in the social powers of IMF, a major research center,
in Silicon Valley, and democratic politics,
which together will heal the maladies of mankind.
Religion wisely insisted on being inherently wrongful beings incapable of eternal happiness,
bemoaned by disturbing desire, obsessed with his state,
vulnerable and always leading to death.
Why should any of that be encouraging?
Probably because the pessimistic exaggeration is so comfortable for us.
Regardless of our private disappointment, we can begin to feel great happiness when we compare our mood with Pascal.
Pascal wanted to turn to God by telling us how terrible he is.
But by sharing our pessimistic analysis, it ironically reinforces us to face the problems of our own lives on this Earth
with great courage, patience and occasional humor.
that the best way to cheer someone is to say that everything will be good.
To point out that life is basically a pleasing process,
in which happiness is not a delusion and human fulfillment a real possibility.
However, we need to read only a few pages of a book known as Thoughts
from the 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal,
to appreciate how completely misleading this approach must be.
Pascal retreats from one of the most pessimistic figures
and one of the most encouraging.
This combination is typical.
The darkest thinker, paradoxically, can often be the one that best suits our spirits.
Pascal was born in Auvergne, France in June 1623.
And from the beginning, learn to watch the glass half empty.
His mother died when he was 3 years old, had only a few friends, was hunchbacked, and often sick.
Fortunately, he was known from a young age, not just the pride of his family, but mainly because he was a genius.
At the age of twelve, he produced the first 32 Euclid’s sentences.
He invented a mathematical probability.
He measured the air pressure,
designed the calculator
and designed the first Paris bus.
At the age of 36, the disease forced him to move away from plans for further scientific research,
but she let him write a brilliant, intensely pessimistic series about aphorism in defending against the Christian faith,
which has become known as the Work of Thought, a book that reminds and honors it.
The purpose of the book is to convert the reader to God and the best way
was to provoke everything horrible in life.
When contemplating the misery of mankind,
that his readers immediately turned to the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, for Pascal, a lot of modern readers turn to the Catholic Church.
The first part of the book, including the bad in life,
it has always been more popular than the other part to show us the way to God and a good life with him.
Pascal begins with the fact that happiness is an illusion.
But he is particularly interested in how much we hate to be dependent on ourselves and discovering our own states.
Pascal is probably the most famous genius of aphorism:
“All the misfortunes of men come from the fact that they can not sit still in their room.”
This aphorism should be written in capital letters on all departure signs of all airports in the world.
Pascal’s spell lies in his bitterness and cynicism.
Pascal thinks people would rather do anything than think about the terrible reality.
One is so extravagant that if he had to do the slightest thing like pushing a billiard ball with a cue,
he would rather drop it.
At the same time, Pascal people are tortured by their desire, especially the desire for glory.
People are so bold that they want to be known around the world, and even those who are coming to the world.
And probably the greatest source of suffering is the most bizarre.
Boredom.
We fight against obstacles, but once they are overcome,
we begin to get bored,
because rest is unbearable for us.
Pascal’s bitter conclusion: “What is man? Nothing compared to infinity.”
Pascal does not have the opportunity to confront his readers with proof of
a deviant, poor mankind deserving of nature.
In ever seductive classic France
informs us that happiness is just an illusion.
That poverty is the norm.
That true love is a chimera.
That we are as impatient as vain.
That even the most powerful of us is powerless against the diseases that can hurt us.
That all the world institutions are corrupt.
And finally, we have a tendency to reappraise.
Pascal suggests that the best we can do is
face desperate situations.
Because it is a great surprise for us that reading Pascal,
for us it is not as depressing as we expected.
Work is comfort, warm, sometimes good.
For those who are balancing on the brink of despair, it may be better to give up
than to look for hope until the last moment.
Ideas glorify inner beauty and positive thinking. It also claims to realize the hidden potential
has the power to conquer suicide on a high ledge.
If Pascal’s pessimism can make us so easy to comfort,
it is because we are not usually thrown into the darkness by negativity, just like hope.
It is a hope with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our policies, our planet,
which we primarily blame for our indignation.
The incompatibility of the magnitude of our aspirations and the reality of our state creates a strong disappointment,
which tortures us.
We should honor Pascal and the long line of pessimistic Christians that have shown great service,
that they have pointed out the morbidity and impiety of the human race.
Reading Pascal reminds us that secular moments
were much more optimistic than the religious one.
Naivita considered irony, so he often ridiculed her.
It is secular that his desire has expanded so intensely,
that he could imagine that paradise could be realized
only a few years with financial resources and medical research.
Without mention of contradiction, he refused to believe in angels, while frankly believing in the social powers of IMF, a major research center,
in Silicon Valley, and democratic politics,
which together will heal the maladies of mankind.
Religion wisely insisted on being inherently wrongful beings incapable of eternal happiness,
bemoaned by disturbing desire, obsessed with his state,
vulnerable and always leading to death.
Why should any of that be encouraging?
Probably because the pessimistic exaggeration is so comfortable for us.
Regardless of our private disappointment, we can begin to feel great happiness when we compare our mood with Pascal.
Pascal wanted to turn to God by telling us how terrible he is.
But by sharing our pessimistic analysis, it ironically reinforces us to face the problems of our own lives on this Earth
with great courage, patience and occasional humor.
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