About Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who wrote the Pensees. (1623-1662)

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• The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.Pensees, 277, tr. W. F. Trotter
• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.Pensees, 139, tr. W. F. Trotter
• Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.Pensees, 347, tr. W. F. Trotter
• People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.Pensees, 10, tr. W. F. Trotter
• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.Pensees, 69, tr. W. F. Trotter
• The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.Pensees, 19, tr. W. F. Trotter

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