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> [“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which roughly means “distraction” or “diversion”: It is the escape from life’s problems, and also its invitations, into activities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-shannon/collectivity-on-the-other-hand-is-the-place-of-what-the-seventeenth/)

William H. Shannon

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## Other authors on Diversion

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diversion/blaise-pascal/)

## More by William H. Shannon

> [“God works in history, therefore a contemplative who has no sense of history, no sense of historical responsibility, is not fully a Christian contemplative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-shannon/god-works-in-history-therefore-a-contemplative-who-has-no-sense-of/)

William H. Shannon

> [“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which roughly means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-shannon/collectivity-on-the-other-hand-is-the-place-of-what-the-seventeenth/)

William H. Shannon

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