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Biography - Blaise Pascal:

French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher.
Born: 1623 - Died: 1662
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.


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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosopher.

German
Sich über Philosophie lustig machen, heißt wahrhaft philosophieren.




See also 

See also...



Philosophy: Should always be snickered at.




Quotes for: philosophy


Quotes

Quotes about philosophy:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.











Quotes

Blaise Pascal also said...


All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.





The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.












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