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Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Time

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Our soul becomes confined within a physical body, which experiences reality through measurable things like numbers, time, and space. Because of this, the soul thinks these limitations are absolute and cannot imagine any other way of existing.

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