The 17th-century French intellectual Blaise Pascal powerfully describes...
The 17th-century French intellectual Blaise Pascal powerfully describes our miserable condition on this side of the fall into sin: "Since nature makes us unhappy whatever our state, our desire[s] depict for us a happy state, because they link the state in which we are with the pleasures of that in which we are not. Even if we did attain these pleasures that would not make us happy, because we should have new desires appropriate to this new state" (Pensees, p. 238). We are never satisfied with life.
