Both Wretched and Great: Pascal on the Human Condition

We humans are restless creatures, always seeking what the French religious thinker Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) called divertissement or "diversion." Understanding the root cause of our restlessness, the tension between our conflicting capacities for profound wretchedness as well as genuine greatness, is the key to coping with it.

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“The heart has it’s reasons which reason knows nothing of…” Blaise Pascal PENSEES

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This is a great quote, but Dostoevsky captured the same idea more effectively when he wrote, "Reason is but a slave to passion."