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Religionsphilosoph, Naturwissenschafter, Physiker, entwickelte 1640 das "Pascalsche Dreieck" (Frankreich, 1623 - 1662).

Blaise Pascal · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Blaise Pascal wäre heute 400 Jahre, 10 Monate, 7 Tage oder 146.409 Tage alt.

Geboren am 19.06.1623 in Clermont-Ferrand
Gestorben am 19.08.1662 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning.

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• The multitude which is not brought to act as unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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• The proper purpose of wealth is to give of it generously.

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• The reason men resort to power is that they cannot find righteousness.

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• The self is hateful.

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• The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

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• The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his occasional efforts, but by his ordinary life.

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• The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.

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• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

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• There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose; without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

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• There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

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• To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.

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• We are generally better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

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• We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover than by those which are given to us by others.

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

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• We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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• We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart, and it is from this last that we know first principles; and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to combat them. The skeptics who desire truth alone labor in vain.

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• We shall die alone.

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• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

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