...11 Paul Valery, Oeuvres (Paris: Gallimard [Pleiade], 1965), 2:696. {Trans. Note: Pascal's pensee is "Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." (The eternal silence of those infinite spaces frightens me.)} 12 Trans. Note: See Change 14 (1973). Mallarme's "L'Azur" begins...

...Francis Bacon1 1. THE CARTESIAN REVOLUTION: MATHEMATICAL TRANSPARENCY AND ARBITRARY LAW Le silence etemel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. ('The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. ') Blaise Pascal2 It is a familiar fact that the seventeenth-century revolution in philosophy profoundly...

...43 [p. 32]). In Ici the equivalent fragment is part of the concluding meditation on Pascal's phrase 'Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie' ['The eternal silence of those infinite spaces fills me with terror'] with all its solemnity and awe (/, p. 194 [p.16o]). The...

...the Sun, the longer the time for 1 orbit (the planet's 'year')." Do the data in the table on page 190 support any of these hypotheses? Explain your thinking....terrifies me}. Write a poem of your thoughts about space. Altitude of midday sun Hours of daylight Month January July low, 15° high, 62° 8 16 Date Jan 21 Feb21...

...on to express a feeling of mutual bewilderment with his libertine interlocutor: "Le silence 6ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie" (The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread). Pascal's use of the first person object pronoun, "m'effraie" (fills me with dread),...

...Frost's conscious revision of the famous quotation from Blaise Pascal's Pensees, "Le silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie" (The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me), where Pascal describes how terror, rather than destroying his belief in God, actually...

...this reali2ation the beginnings of a way in which one might rethink something of Maximos's vision. "Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie" (the eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with fear). 14 What kind of fear? Philippe Sellier, in his note to this passage, points to...

...reservoir of somewhere" where all lost things go. CHAPTER 9 WHAT THOUGHT IS LIKE The Sea and The Sky Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie....eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me." Pascal recorded in that famous pensee his overwhelmed and overwhelming fear of the stars. He knew that...

...in Pensees et Opuscules, ed. Leon Brunschvicg (Paris: Librairie Hachette, nd): 'Le silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie' ('the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me'). 11. Martin Heidegger, Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom, tr. Joan Stambaugh (Athens:...

...language. The sentence, in pensee no. 206, describes Pascal's reaction to viewing the night sky; it reads "Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." (The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.) Generations of French school children have had to memorize and recite it. Pascal's first...