Quotes of Pascal - somelinesforyou

“ Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. ”

- Lord Acton

“ In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them… ”

- C. M. Cox
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