| | *''“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”'' | | *''“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”'' |
| − | *''“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the [[Enlightenment]], that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly [[paradise]]] whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”'' (The End of Christendom) | + | *''“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the [[Enlightenment]], that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly [[paradise]] whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”'' (The End of Christendom) |