All Human Evil Comes From This - - -

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Blaise Pascal
1623-1662

French Mathematician and Philosopher
The inventor of the first digital calculator

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety –

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

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious convictions.