"Ode on a Grecian Urn" ( John Keats ) & "Stonehenge"

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"The human imagination is one of the things we believe separates us from the animals, and different writers and theorists have taken different views of the importance of the imagination. Blaise Pascal points to one of the primary values of the imagination--it allows us to conceive of things we cannot experience directly. One of these things is death, which we do experience eventually but which we must imagine in life. One of the problems Pascal sees in science is that it makes human beings arrogant, as if they were able to control the world in a way they are not. In truth, he finds human beings weak and frail without spiritual support, capable of being completely destroyed by the slightest shift in health.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe.."

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