''Pascal attempted the experiment of
seeing whether, with the aid of the most incisive knowledge,
everyone could not be brought to despair: the experiment miscarried,
to his twofold despair.''
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
By Friedrich Nietzsche
What exactly does the phrase from above mean? That Pascal tried to find out if he, somehow, could stop people from despairing, or if he could get all of them to despair?
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