Words & Wisdom Of Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal

Four kinds of persons: zeal without knowledge; knowledge without zeal;
neither knowledge nor zeal; both zeal and knowledge.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until
they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things
to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something
so that we can talk about it.

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

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability
to sit quietly in a room alone.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos,
a contradiction, a prodigy!  Judge of all things,
an imbecile worm; depository of truth,
sewer of error and doubt;
the glory and refuse
of the universe.

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All of the above  are from Pensees,
Pascal's 17th century book about 
his philosophical thought.

But what is below is a "quote" from
what Blaise Pascal is most famous for:

It
is indeed
a colorful segment
of the Pascal Triangle

Every number in view is the sum
of the two numbers directly
above but it goes on
and on and on..... 






Below,  we have THE FIRST TWELVE CHAPTERS ROWS
                                 (PLUS THE INTRODUCTORY  ROW)
                                        OF WHAT MADE MR. PASCAL
                                                                  A HOUSEHOLD        
                                                                                  NAME

    




















If the name of Blaise Pascal is not in your house, something 
he invented probably is.

If you can count all the patterns in the Pascal Triangle,
give my regards to Mr. & Mrs. Infinity.
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