Glossary Category:

“sublime misanthropy,”

According to Voltaire’s (Preliminary) Remarks on the Thoughts of Pascal: “It would seem to me that, in general, the spirit in which Pascal wrote his Thoughts was to portray man in an odious light; he unrelentingly paints us all as evil and unhappy […]. I dare to take...

“terrible.”

Borgès, Jorge Luis, “Pascal’s Sphere” in Other Inquisitions, 1937–1952, Ruth L.C. Simms, trans., (University of Texas Press, 1993): www.filosofiaesoterica.com/pascals-sphere