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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10.
Blaise
Pascal
Blaise Pascal
 
1623–62, French scientist and religious philosopher.… In the Pensées, famous both as a religious and philosophical classic, Pascal states his belief in the inadequacy of reason to solve man’s difficulties or to satisfy his hopes. He preached instead the final necessity of mystic faith for true understanding of the universe and its meaning to man.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  p-skl´, pä-skäl´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Thoughts
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVIII, Part 1.
 
Letters
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVIII, Part 2.
 
Minor Works
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVIII, Part 3.
 
Bartlett’s Pascal Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Pascal, Blaise, 43638 to 43801
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.



 
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