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Blaise Pascal

Born

in Clermont-Ferrand, France

June 19, 1623

Died

August 19, 1662

Genre

Mathematics, Philosophy, Science

Influences

Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Pierre de Fermat

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French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was a contemporary of René Descartes and was ten when Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his belief that the earth circled the sun. He and Thomas Hobbes lived in Paris at the same time (1640) including the year Hobbes published his famous Leviathan (1651). Together with Pierre de Fermat, Pascal created the calculus of probabilities.

A near-fatal carriage accident in November 1654 — less than eight years before his death — persuaded him to turn his intellect finally toward religion. The story goes that on the proverbial dark and stormy night, while Pascal was riding in a carriage across a bridge in a Paris suburb, a fright caused the horses to bolt, sending them over the edge. The carriage ...more

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	Pensées by Blaise Pascal, Anthony Levi (Editor) , A.J. Krailsheimer (Translator) , Honor Levi (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 9,391 ratings — published 1670 — 205 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Happiness 3.77 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1669 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pascal's Pensees 4.03 avg rating — 279 ratings — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Provincial Letters 4.03 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1830 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent by Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections from the Thoughts 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1900 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith) 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pensees and the Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal, W.F. Trotter (translator) , Thomas McCrie (translator) 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cugetări by Blaise Pascal, Léon Brunschvicg (-Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pensieri 3.88 avg rating — 98 ratings — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heart, love, quip, reason

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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: humour

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“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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