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Blaise Pascal


Born
in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
June 19, 1623

Died
August 19, 1662

Genre
Mathematics, Philosophy, Science

Influences
Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Pierre de Fermat ...more


Early work of Blaise Pascal of France included the invention of the adding machine and syringe and the co-development with Pierre de Fermat of the mathematical theory of probability; later, he, a Jansenist, wrote on philosophy and theology, notably as collected in the posthumous Pensées (1670).

This contemporary of René Descartes attained ten years of age in 1633, when people forced Galileo Galilei to recant his belief that Earth circled the Sun. He lived in Paris at the same time, when Thomas Hobbes in 1640 published his famous Leviathan (1651). Together, Pascal created the calculus.

A near-fatal carriage accident in November 1654 persuaded him to turn his intellect finally toward religion. The story goes that on the proverbial dark ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 18,553 ratings · 1,238 reviews · 1,536 distinct works • Similar authors
Pensées
3.94 avg rating — 14,810 ratings — published 1670 — 264 editions
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Pensées and Other Writings
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4.08 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1670 — 9 editions
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Great Ideas Human Happiness
3.65 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1669 — 6 editions
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The Provincial Letters
3.92 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1657 — 426 editions
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The Mind on Fire: A Faith f...
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Despre fericire
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Selections from The Thoughts
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3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1900 — 5 editions
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Discours sur les passions d...
3.45 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1995 — 19 editions
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Trois discours sur la condi...
3.51 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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De l'art de persuader
3.53 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1660 — 15 editions
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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
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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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