From said article: In high school, I read Blaise Pascal’s - TopicsExpress



          

From said article: In high school, I read Blaise Pascal’s “Pensees,” and this particular passage stayed with me: But does he who loves someone on account of beauty really love that person? No; for the small-pox, which will kill beauty without killing the person, will cause him to love her no more. And if one loves me for my judgment, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? … We never, then, love a person, but only qualities. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 01:10:12 +0000

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