Sublime

Source: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity

My advice is to have no shame in starting at the beginning, with the most classical and elementary proofs. Since it won’t be easy for you to know if you really understand them, try explaining them to someone else, perhaps a child.

Tout ce qui existe dans l’univers est le fruit du hasard et de la nécessité. Démocrite

While I will argue that Kierkegaard and Pascal share much of Unamuno’s view, it is ultimately Unamuno’s view of reason that is the source of his inability to make the leap of faith that Kierkegaard and Pascal make. Kierkegaard and Pascal see that there are limits to human reason and this makes them approach the problem of the “hiddenness of God” ve

easily conceived

Pascal himself took comfort from that insight, as he followed his lament that “the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck” with the consolation “but through thought I grasp it.”

contribution as your backup. The scientific association with a big idea, the “brand name,” goes to the one who connects the dots, not the one who makes a casual observation—even Charles Darwin, who uncultured scientists claim “invented” the survival of the fittest, was not the first to mention it. He wrote in the introduction of The Origin of Speci