Blaise Pascal on Books
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Blaise Pascal, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #99968: "The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written."
Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #151137: "In reading this author and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two greatest defenders of the two most celebrated sects of the world, and the onl…"
2 Quotes by Blaise Pascal on Books
"The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written."
"In reading this author and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two greatest defenders of the two most celebrated sects of the world, and the only ones conformable to reason, since we can only follow one of these two roads, namely: either that there is a God, and then we place in him the sovereign good; or that he is uncertain, and that then the true good is also uncertain, since he is incapable of it."