DAY 146

Pensées

Blaise Pascal · 1670
Pensées
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Am I constantly trying to forget myself with something out of the fear of solitude?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Reading the fragments left by Pascal, the genius mathematician and philosopher, I held my breath again and again at insights that strike to the bone. He says that all of human misery comes from our inability to sit quietly alone in a room. Afraid to face the void, we flee endlessly into diversion and noise. Showing at once the smallness and the greatness of a human being standing before the universe, this book becomes an intellectual refuge that gathers my scattered thoughts and binds them firm.

— ONGO · Curator
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"인간은 자연에서 가장 연약한 한 줄기 갈대에 불과하다. 그러나 그는 생각하는 갈대다."

🌱Apply It Today

Take ten minutes today to sit quietly alone in a room with no outside stimulation or conversation, with only yourself for company.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

悠悠自適
Easy on My Time
유유자적 · leisurely freedom
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