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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

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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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	Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,143 ratings — published 1670 — 1310 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
	Pensées and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal, Honor Levi (Translator), Anthony Levi (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1670 — 8 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
	Great Ideas Human Happiness 3.66 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1669 — 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
	The Provincial Letters 3.93 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1657 — 427 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) 4.13 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1989 — 13 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
	Despre fericire by Blaise Pascal, Deniz Otay (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2022	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 by Blaise Pascal, Arthur H. Beattie (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1900 — 5 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
	Discours sur les passions de l'amour 3.43 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1995 — 22 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
	Trois discours sur la condition des Grands/Six liasses extraites des "Pensées" 3.52 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2006 — 5 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
	Pensées and the Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal, W.F. Trotter (translator), Thomas McCrie (translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1941 — 9 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

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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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