The paradox of knowing there’s so much we don’t know.
Issue
Can a film be a philosophical support? I.e. to be a tool to open up to the activity of thinking about the world. I think so.
The reason (thought 267)
Text of “thought 267” by Blaise Pascal
Text located on page 247 of the original manuscript.
The last step of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things that surpass it; it is only weak, if it does not go so far as to know this.
That if natural things surpass it, what will be said of the supernatural?
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