What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a… — Blaise Pascal
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.
In the original French
Quelle chimere est-ce donc que l'homme? Quelle nouveaute, quel cahos, quel sujet de contradiction? Judge de touts choses, imbecille ver de terre; depositaire du vray, amas d'incertitude; gloire, & rebut de l'univers.
Pensees · 1670
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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 4.
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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 4.
