Kittens and puppies and human children are notorious for this kind of “enhancement.” It is sometimes referred to as competence motivation.
Pascal’s lifelong task became an exercise of endlessly reducing words to their essence, in order to probe a pure nothingness and bring us to its edge. For him, allfinite things are fragments, for they are nothing but pieces torn from infinity. All the same, the nature of finitude is such that not even a vast quantity of fragmentscould ever approach wholeness, ‘a unit added to infinity does not increase infinity at all, any more than a foot added to an infinite length’.
According to the passage, what kind of evidence does the author cite in support of his claim that we react with various degrees of violence to attacks on our self-esteem?
In what context has the author used the sentence “If people of a certain country, who have hitherto not been in the habit of wearing much clothing, boots, etc., adoptEuropean clothing, they are supposed to have become civilised out of savagery?
What is the author trying to convey by using the text “not even the greatest chefs can produce petits pois farcis”?
