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Blaise Pascal

French scientist and inventor; b. 1623; d. 1662

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Blaise Pascal, in Wisdom and Ignorance

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal, in Happiness and Misery and Love and Hate

#  ·  **** Very Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Altruism and Cynicism

#  ·  **** Very Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Vice and Virtue

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