All our dignity consists in thought. It is by this that we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor, then, to think well; this is the principle of morality.
— Blaise Pascal Early Modern

Pascal's Wager, mathematician

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Pensées

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1669 (posthumous)

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Controversial

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