Blaise Pascal: The Thinking Reed That Is Man
06-02-2015“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
— Blaise Pascal
(Featured Image Source: J. R. Benjamin)
Blaise Pascal's Biography
Blaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France--died August 19, 1662, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal’s law of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason. The establishment of his principle of intuitionism had an impact on such later philosophers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henri Bergson and also on the Existentialists.
(Sourced from Encyclopedia Britannica)
Click here to read more Thoughts on Thinking.