Where Have All the Wise Men Gone

 

Where Have All the Wise Men Gone

 

When you read the quotes from Blaise Pascal, you wonder if is He living in 2024, it sure sounds like what I’m experiencing.

Blaise Pascal was 100% on target when he made these quotes: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”  Also, “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”  Lastly, if we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?  You may find it of interest that Blaise Pascal lived from 1623-1662 and he was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

Once again, I am reminded of my dad who had a love for history, and would often say we learn nothing from history are we would not keep repeating it.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice