The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
1670
The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
1670
Translated by C. Kegan (Charles Kegan) Paul
Pascal was already legendary at thirty-nine, a mathematician who invented probability theory, a physicist who proved the atmosphere had weight, a prodigy who'd outlived his fame. Then he sat down to write an apology for Christianity and left behind something stranger: fragments of such ferocious insight that they've outlived every polished theology. The Penseés range across human nature like no one before or since. Here is a man who understood that we cannot bear our own company, that we fill every void with noise and motion, that the silence of a room is unbearable. He saw us as wretches and angels, nothing and everything, creatures caught between two infinities. His famous Wager, that you must bet your life on God's existence, is less a proof than a dare. This is philosophy as existential crisis: rigorous, often beautiful, sometimes terrifying. For anyone who's ever lain awake at three in the morning wondering why we're here.
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.””
— Blaise Pascal
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.””
— Blaise Pascal
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.””
— Blaise Pascal
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.””
— Blaise Pascal
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.””
— Blaise Pascal
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.””
— Blaise Pascal
“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)””
— Blaise Pascal
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.””
— Blaise Pascal
“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.””
— Blaise Pascal
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