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Blaise Pascal: “All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room”
Everyone is prey to distractedness, to seeing solace in activity as an escape from experiencing ourselves. In fact this is one of the major obstacles to a meaningful life. Bodhipaksa argues, however, that the force underlying our distractedness is a creative one, and that properly channeled it can take us all the way to enlightenment.
I’ve always been fond of this saying from Pascal’s Pensées, which reminds me that not being at peace with ourselves is a human condition rather than a uniquely modern one. All people at all times have suffered the pains of boredom, self-doubt, loneliness, irritability, restlessness, and anxiety that come from not being at peace with ourselves. I’ve experienced my fair share of that.
Like many people I have an ideal of being at peace and of enjoying rest. I struggle in my life to live and even sometimes to accomplish something meaningful, and all the time with the idea that sometime in the future — in a few weeks or perhaps next year — life will be more spacious and restful and I’ll have more time for meditating and reflecting, and for doing things that I find truly meaningf
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Blaise Pascal: 1623-1662 French Person, Philosopher, instruction Mathematician
Blaise Pascal: 1623-1662 French Person, Philosopher, instruction Mathematician
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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal was a renowned 17th-century French polymath celebrated for his contributions to mathematics and physics. In mathematics, he is remembered for Pascal's Triangle, a significant tool in combinatorics and probability theory. In physics, he made notable advancements in fluid mechanics and atmospheric pressure studies. His groundbreaking work in these fields has had a lasting impact on both mathematics and physics, cementing his legacy as a pioneering thinker of his time.
About
Blaise Pascal was smart from a young age. When he was just a teenager, he started doing serious math on shapes called conic sections and even wrote a big book about how they work. He talked a lot with another famous mathematician, Pierre de Fermat, about probability - like figuring out the chances of things happening.
At around 16, he started working on something cool: machines that could do math, for example, calculators today. People later called them Pascal's calculators or Pascaline. He was one of the first people to make something like this, and it became very revolutionary in today's modern world.
Early life
Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, a place in France. Sadly, his mom passed away when he was just three years old. His dad, Étienne Pascal, w