ABSTRACT
The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) conceived this thought in full awareness of the pitiful status of human existence, which is defenseless against a cold, soulless world and its own ultimate decay. He diagnoses both grandeur and misery in human beings: “Man knows that he is wretched: therefore he is wretched, since wretched he is; but this very knowledge means that he is also great.
