PhilosophersBlaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Augustinianism · Jansenism (Port-Royal)1623 – 1662 FranceBelieverMathematicianCritic of reason aloneMoralist
Inspirations
Augustin grace, human wretchedness
Montaignedoubt, which he admires and fights
Épictètehuman greatness
Descartes "Descartes useless and uncertain"
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Bonaventure A world without a beginning is impossible: the infinite can neither be added to nor traversed to the end.
94 %Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Bishop and orator, he reads universal history as the work of Providence guiding the empires.
90 %Alexandre Soljenitsyne Russian writer, eight years in the Soviet camps, who tells that world in The Gulag Archipelago and sees there a line between good and evil running through every heart.
89 %Anselme de Cantorbéry God is 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived': so he cannot exist in thought alone.
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