{"id":11902,"date":"2010-01-22T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/on-owning-land\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:53:37","slug":"on-owning-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/on-owning-land\/","title":{"rendered":"On Owning Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #111111\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Blaise Pascal,&#0160;<strong><font color=\"#000000\">Pens\u00e9es<\/font><\/strong> #113 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 59): <\/p>\n<p>It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #111111\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #111111\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #111111\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #111111\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 14px\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; FONT-SIZE: 15px\"><span style=\"COLOR: #3333ff; FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #0000bf\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: #0000bf\">Pascal is right: &#0160;what good will owning acres and acres of land do me? In the end a man needs only &#8212; six feet.<\/span><\/span><\/span>&#0160;<\/span><\/span> <\/font><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: #0000bf\">And before the end I should be seeking truth, not lusting after land.&#0160; So I remind myself when the urge to buy land grips me.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise Pascal,&#0160;Pens\u00e9es #113 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 59): It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.&#0160; Pascal is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/on-owning-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Owning Land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}