People
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
— Blaise Pascal
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Pascal proposes a paradox: because irrationality runs through nearly everyone, refusing to share in that common madness would itself count as a stranger, more isolating form of madness, turning the usual definitions of sanity and insanity inside out.
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