an image of the human condition

 

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition

 

Rene Magritte, Manet's Balcony, 1950
 

 

 

Pensées of Pascal