{"id":12460,"date":"2009-08-22T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/my-favorite-pascal-quotation\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:13:36","slug":"my-favorite-pascal-quotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/my-favorite-pascal-quotation\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Pascal Quotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Blaise Pascal, <strong>Pensees<\/strong> #98 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 55):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Please forgive the following reformulation. Point out to a man that he is crippled, and he won&#39;t contradict you, though he might take umbrage at your churlishness. But point out to a man that his thinking is crippled and he is sure to repy, &quot;No! It is your thinking that is crippled.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise Pascal, Pensees #98 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 55): How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping. Please forgive the following reformulation. Point out to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/my-favorite-pascal-quotation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Favorite Pascal Quotation&#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":[181,39,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-human-predicament","category-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","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=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}