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No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

— Blaise Pascal

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Blaise Pascal

About Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.