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Quotation by Blaise Pascal
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Lettres Provinciales (1657)
"Memorial 1654" Selections, ed. R.H. Popkin, Macmillan, New York (1989)
Pensèes (c. 1659)
Pensées (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931)
Pensées (1670)
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensées, no. 351 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).
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