The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.
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Blaise PascalPensees, 19, tr. W. F. Trotter
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
- I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.Provincial Letters, Letter XVI (1657), loose translation
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